Sentence examples for makeshift tool from inspiring English sources

In true The Martian style we fabricated a makeshift tool out of a toothbrush to clean the pinion thread if necessary.

Boomer Esiason becomes dangerously entangled in artificial leaf litter, and Bill Cowher must cut him out with a makeshift tool fashioned from a cornucopia and the beak of a plastic turkey.

Subway corridors, stairwells and sidewalk entrances are known to have disappeared, and tiled alcoves, designed to accommodate vintage phone booths, have vanished behind newly erected walls that sprout a door to become makeshift tool sheds.

Without a shovel and feeling frustrated and teary-eyed, I searched my car for a makeshift tool.

At midday Tuesday, the local warriors picked apart the half-destroyed pickup truck with jacks, wrenches and makeshift tools, ripping it up for spare parts.

I had begun to search my cabin for makeshift tools to repair the shoe when I suddenly remembered: I am a guy with a butler!

Personally, I'd still rather have a physician in charge of my health than tinker with it myself using partial knowledge and makeshift tools.

He said investigators believed that in Saturday's escape, the inmates used two makeshift tools — a piece of wire about a foot long and a metal knob about the size of a tea saucer.

All described horrendous conditions, with workers often malnourished, sleeping at night in their work clothes in flimsy temporary housing, even in North Korea's severe winter, and working with makeshift tools or their bare hands.

A lady in Kenya can quit using makeshift tools to cook for local workers, and flesh out a real food stand a going concern.

As the balloons were released, attendees attempted to use BB guns and other makeshift tools to retrieve them.