makeshift

More than 1.9 million people have been displaced, many of them multiple times, and 1.2 million of them are currently living in tents or makeshift shelters, it says.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Aquarium staff check on the makeshift nursery three to four times a day, but will soon increase those visits to every other hour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Feygin’s mother grew up in Belarus, where she built a makeshift bathhouse from a tarp and generated steam with a woodstove.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The images shared on Friday showed the Chicago-born Pope wearing a green robe while standing behind a makeshift altar on the tenth floor of the hospital.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

I bit my lip as I looked at the makeshift rock wall the Union soldiers had erected at the top of the hill.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Afghan refugee and photographer Abdul Saboor poses for Reuters as he takes pictures in a makeshifts migrant camp in Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk, France, December 4, 2021.

From Reuters ● Dec. 8, 2021

Awkward staging makeshifts had to be employed instead, resulting in hundreds of audience members leaving the theatre every night scratching their heads.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2013

These two are not makeshifts but attacking bowlers for turning tracks.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2011

Their own makeshifts provide the only bathing and refrigerating facilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Harvard Law School left as little direct impression on him as any of his other exposures to ordinary teaching, but at last he had finished with these makeshifts.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James