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

Across this scarred landscape of abandoned farm fields and derelict villages are thousands of infantrymen, like Vlasenko, scattered in ones and twos, sheltering in makeshift bunkers—the humans in a robot war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

She turned a maroon tablecloth into a makeshift curtain, attaching it to the French doors with suction cups.

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

He squatted in front of the apple crate the dealer had set up as a makeshift table and flipped down another nickel.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

Temporary hospital quarters in the brick barracks were sloppy makeshifts.

From Time Magazine Archive

I went the rounds with them, pointing out with a weary satisfaction our various makeshifts.

From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield