Sentence examples for very makeshift from inspiring English sources

Looking back, I can make some sense of it, but at the time my life was all very makeshift and provisional, more dependent on luck than on planning or intent.

There are more people than ever, and the conditions are as awful as ever – children living in shacks, in tents very makeshift, with just one meal a day, often not enough to eat, with no support system except for the volunteers, left to their own devices," Dubs says.

Another positive for England in this Test was the slip catching, which looked very makeshift in New Zealand.

I studied graphic design, so I'm very makeshift with lights and I'm constantly looking at my cameras trying to figure out what's going on.

"Eighteen months ago we saw a very makeshift emergency situation, people sheltering under tarpaulins by the hundreds of thousands in these camps," says Ronan. "Now there's a disturbing sense of permanence.

A special button makes it go all white and very bright -- a makeshift video light for subjects within a few feet.

So at this year's concert, I promised to stand at the very back of the makeshift parental choir, helping out with harmonies, but eschewing solos or ostentatious descants.

Incubator of childhood diseases With hundreds of thousands of quake survivors living at very close quarters in makeshift settlements, children are at risk of contracting life-threatening illnesses.

Having been accepted by everyone on the door craning a nervous neck back every five seconds or so to make sure everyone you came with has been as lucky as you have—you walk into the club, join a very long queue for a makeshift toilet, squeeze out a piss under pressure, and then join another queue for a makeshift bar.

The British soldiers who investigated the Zubayr military base found 200 makeshift coffins bearing very decayed corpses.

Mr. Oberzan's sweetly vacant persona and his doofusy earnestness are often very funny, as are his makeshift attempts to evoke the book's violent battles with just a few wild kicks and pinwheeling arm movements.