makeshift
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Another soldier, Natasha, said the protesters with their makeshift cardboard placards, were a long way from the daily brutality of the front line.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
A makeshift memorial for Salgado sprung up at the location of the shooting, with dozens of people visiting the site to pay their respects Friday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Our makeshift house was made of birches bent over and tied at the tops and covered with caribou skins.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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
Until it got them it could only stand by and watch traffic be hamstrung by overnight dashes into sheltered harbors, by limited convoys, by other makeshifts that sadly slowed the pulse of United Nations commerce.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was adapted and arranged with the boldest of alterations and makeshifts.
From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling
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