makeshift
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Lynn looked toward the ground and was eyeing Highland or Los Feliz for a makeshift landing spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
He nailed several boards together to create a makeshift coffin for the limb.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 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
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
Chilled, DeShon and I hold tight to the makeshift raft.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
Many victims struggled along for years with these 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
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