makeshift

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

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Advocates for people living outside, in campers and other makeshift quarters have long expressed the worry that those vulnerable people get shunted aside when major events come to town.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

A furniture bank said it has been helping families whose children were sleeping on floors, piles of clothes and other makeshift beds.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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

"Ah, give him time; he'll settle down," said M'Cabe, who had a thankfulness for small mercies born of a vast experience of makeshifts; "he might fill the bag for us yet."

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross