makeshift
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So they lifted her onto a makeshift raft made of banana trunks, and carried her through the rushing water towards safety.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
County’s border with Ventura, in a makeshift tent city for Southern California Edison employees who were building a transmission line, the water hit around 1:20 a.m. and killed 84 more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
They take the olive groves and the goats and the summer houses, and they take the makeshift shelters and the fragile new footing of people who had already lost everything once.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
But South Korea's heatwave has made it uninhabitable, forcing him to seek refuge under a makeshift tarp just a stone’s throw from Gangnam’s gleaming skyscrapers, where the wealthy remain cool in their aloof abodes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
It is a makeshift brig but it does the job.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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
At the best, these log-houses were poor makeshifts for dwellings in the severe winter weather along the bleak New England coast.
From American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur Fisk Gordy
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