makeshift

Thousands have shown up in the capital Kyiv since last week, beating makeshift cardboard signs and singing the Ukrainian national anthem.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

During the tournament, thousands of Palestinians gathered in makeshift cafes set up inside tents or built from corrugated metal salvaged from damaged buildings to watch Egypt's matches.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Penelope gave a slow spin to the makeshift globe she had fashioned out of a roundish potato and a long birch twig that had been whittled to a point.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

Less de luxe makeshifts are being employed by other Irish, for Eire faces several acute war-born shortages.

From Time Magazine Archive

One's own individual makeshifts do not affect that.

From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Comer, Cornelia A. P.