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Discover LudwigThe phrase "makeshift way" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means a temporary or improvised manner of doing something. Example: The hikers had to find a makeshift way to cross the river since the bridge had been washed away in the storm.
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She developed a makeshift way of going off the record, covering her mouth and whispering to her friends.
Until now, however, Pakistan has done so in a makeshift way, demanding that Internet service providers cut off access to specific sites upon request.
The hardscrabble field around this mother and her pram had been transformed, within hours, into a makeshift way station for the dispossessed in the government-controlled part of Aleppo.
So, as a solution, he just put a lot of his personal belongings on top of the tunnel in his Square Bird and created a makeshift way to hold them.
As one example, we could build a clinical grade cell sorter so that researchers can do cell therapy using a cell sorter that can get FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] approval rather than the makeshift way we do it now.
No! Mum's pretty business-minded, but Dad probably would have made a brilliant artist in a mad, makeshift way.
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People are coming up with makeshift ways to do something similar.
Their grief isn't makeshift -- it is elemental -- but the families have had to ritualize their grief in makeshift ways.
Soon, many districts were finding makeshift ways of getting by – including Caddo Parish, which conscripted tax attorneys, real estate attorneys and other novice recruits from the private bar to fill in for the overwhelmed defenders.
Peple come up with makeshift ways to earn money: one man dismantles cars and then sells the parts, others sell drugs.
In a makeshift, fallible way, they tell us what the world is really like.
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