Sentence examples for makeshift things from inspiring English sources

His tools of combat are practical, makeshift things found in the environment and hastily cobbled together to create some manner of effective weaponry.

Decorating isn't her thing; makeshift shelving units for the figurines dominate the rooms.

"To be honest, skateboarding is the best industry to be in if you have no fucking clue what you're doing, because it's quite forgiving – you can do things quite makeshift and learn as you go," says Dan. "I was running everything from my bedroom until not even this time last year, and now we're here.

The whole thing looked makeshift and dated even before Jimmy Conners beat Bjorn Borg in the first Flushing final.

On reading his work aloud: "I suspect that the reality of readings will remain makeshift and multifarious, a thing of unpredictable splendors and miseries".

One thing their makeshift basket lacked was a backboard, so any errant shot bouncing over the basket bounded into the alley, necessitating a timeout on nearly half of the shots taken.

That's not a great foundation for a makeshift lineup, but without Randolph, things would be absolutely disastrous.

To make things worse, the makeshift observation room where we looked at our abject failures was the toilet in the Schoneberg office building.

The next day, I went downtown to the blast area, and it was jam-packed with people coming to leave things at a makeshift shrine on the corner of Boylston and Berkeley.

In the 1980s, together with Annie Lennox, Stewart put on a suit to convince a bank manager to fund their song Sweet Dreams, later recording the whole thing in a makeshift studio in a warehouse.

The performers who had come through there and made these incredible seminal American recordings in these makeshift studios -- the whole thing just sounded like a whole weird fever dream.