makeshift

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Nearly 30 inmates, selected for good behavior, donned tuxedos with pink boutonnieres and waited as daughters, some dressed in formal gowns, were led into the prison’s Bible college transformed into a makeshift dance hall.

From Salon

A light powered by a makeshift electrical connection shone at the doorway of the rusted shack where Bryan lives with his wife and nine-year-old son.

From Barron's

In one patch of blue canvas shelters, some 60 doctors, nurses and pharmacists have assembled what passes for a clinic: a makeshift pharmacy, a rudimentary laboratory and tents used as short-stay wards.

From Barron's

People rushed from residential buildings as buildings shook and makeshift structures collapsed.

From BBC

On reaching the outskirts of the capital, Patna, the team found a ramshackle setup of a dozen metal drums - part of a makeshift apparatus fermenting jaggery, a type of cane sugar, into country liquor.

From BBC