Sentence examples for to makeshift from inspiring English sources

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to makeshift

noun

A temporary (usually insubstantial) substitution.

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The dead were moved to makeshift medical clinics.

But many of the rest have moved to makeshift dwellings in slums without sanitation.

By the time we arrived, the unwanted arrivals had been taken to makeshift camps.

Much was brought to makeshift distribution centres like the one outside Nitro's police station.

Hundreds of residents moved to makeshift encampments along a road to the city of Multan.

The barrels had been cut and converted to makeshift mortar systems, the fighters said.

The usually bustling trading towns are now empty, their residents evacuated to makeshift tents in Kathmandu.

The most seriously injured were taken to makeshift first aid centres in tents on the quayside.

But when the island became overwhelmed, Italy began moving them to makeshift tent camps on the mainland.

Students and faculties of most eastern colleges took the overland trek to makeshift quarters in distant inland towns.

To make matters worse, when people illegally connect their homes to makeshift pipelines they tend to break and waste resources.

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