Sentence examples for serve as makeshift from inspiring English sources

Several television networks said they planned to leave the wooden platforms they had constructed on the prison grounds until the new date, as well as trailers they had parked there to serve as makeshift news bureaus.

Sponsored by the Assalaam Foundation, an Islamic educational and social-services organization, circumcisions take place in a prayer center or an emptied-out elementary-school classroom where desks are pushed together and covered with sheets and a pillow to serve as makeshift beds.

When he works, he often wears two pairs of glasses to serve as makeshift bifocals, giving his sharp features an air of the unreal.

While you wait you can go and buy alcohol from a number of local residents' houses that serve as makeshift bars and bottle shops.

Los Angeles's Skid Row is littered with cardboard boxes, sleeping bags, and weathered tents that serve as makeshift shelters for the thousands of homeless people who live on the streets.

The child-friendly spaces can also serve as makeshift schools while UNICEF works towards getting children back to school in time for the opening of the school year on June 1.

Informal resting places that once served as makeshift seats or benches are increasingly being adapted to prevent this unauthorised use.

They are also building time into their day to play themselves, with their hard hats serving as makeshift goals.

Near Parliament, there were hundreds of trucks, bearing license plates from across the rural heartland, serving as makeshift kitchens.

For centuries, state beds resembled Scooby-Doo's sandwiches: rope-strung wooden frames piled high with teetering stacks of luxurious mattresses, with yawning mistresses serving as makeshift filling.

Hank Van Hoy led a short Sunday prayer on stage, where a few benches served as makeshift pews and a small crowd huddled to avoid the downpour.