makeshift
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Perrin then assembled a makeshift watering squad—one person to drive the tractor and four others to trail with hoses—at a cost of about €1,500, or $1,750, a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
In a building next to a makeshift morgue in Bharatpur, Shobha Adhikary emerged from the crowd after scanning the LED screen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
They lived in makeshift apartments and partied in retrofitted warehouses.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
All of them — RVs, makeshift shelters, a few shipping containers and one compound of discarded school bungalows — fall within the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
He charged past me, using the sides of the narrow passageway as a makeshift crutch as he hobbled on his bad leg.
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
Accustomed to many makeshifts, he figured on buying little machinery, making tools on hand do as much as possible.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cry was taken up by the rest of the makeshifts and some of the doubters.
From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum
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