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As the match progressed, some spectators formed their own makeshift games farther down the beach as the midday sun tracked west through the afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Although most returned, as many as 5,000 remain in makeshift camps or are sleeping on the city's streets and beaches, leading to unrest in the autonomous Spanish city in North Africa.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

He nailed several boards together to create a makeshift coffin for the limb.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

After the flower is sufficiently “crispy,” she sits at an L-shaped desk overlooking her makeshift garden and coats individual petals with resin up to six times, curing them under a UV light between coats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Vagabonds shouted at one another and rammed their pushcarts for position in the makeshift settlement.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

Britain, which has to live across the Channel from Europe, wants no postwar makeshifts that will loose another world war as soon as Allied occupying forces withdraw.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Neale’s bright mind evolved makeshifts for food as well as for other things.

From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Thelma Gooch