Sentence examples for type of makeshift from inspiring English sources

Presumably the sailors manning guns on the decks of the Cole were on the lookout for an airborne attack or a more traditional, frontal assault by the type of makeshift gunboat that harassed American warships in the Persian Gulf in the 1980's.

He also uses a type of makeshift wheelchair to get around.

Building officials recently told the website Hoodline that the pods are illegal and that the city is trying to discourage others from building these types of makeshift bedrooms – even if it has become increasingly difficult to find affordable housing in the city.

Data were also collected on the housing environment, relating to the type of house construction (Makeshift, adobe and stone, concrete) the number of household residents, sanitary conditions and household facilities such as electricity and drinking water source.

So began an exercise in the Advanced Improvised Explosive Device Disposal course, a quietly busy American military school intended to help thwart a weapon indelibly linked to terrorism and war: the makeshift bomb, the type of weapon that had been used days before in the Boston Marathon attack.

The foul smell of makeshift latrines comes from the cathedral's leafy gardens.

Before then, a host of makeshift and accessory devices, as well as hand signals, sufficed.

Without them, he faced a future of makeshift contracts with under-the-table pay.

We're running out of makeshift solutions".

From ED waiting room to an ED bed took a mean time of 209 min. The mean number of makeshift beds was 3.1.

Where did the idea of "makeshift compromise" come from except from Johnson's imagination?