makeshift

So much so that on his 15th birthday last Saturday , the sidewalk outside her downtown Long Beach store where he spends most of his time transformed into a makeshift fair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

That first week, we had a TV and a kind of makeshift conversation pit: a quilt, a mattress, some pillows.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

Many left homeless are also sleeping in the streets or in makeshift shelters set up in parks and public spaces.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

At a port storage facility transformed into a makeshift morgue in La Guaira, the same scene repeats itself again and again.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Around the gate, every chair is full, and passengers for the next outgoing flight are standing shoulder to shoulder as those deplaning from mine grumble into the makeshift lounge.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Jars are makeshifts, though useful makeshifts: and small beer will not keep in them for much more than a week.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan