makeshift
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Officers also dismantled the stage and makeshift tents at Jantar Mantar, the protest's main base near the 300-year-old observatory.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
You can also use a resealable plastic baggie with the corner snipped as a makeshift piping bag.
From Salon ● 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
It crashes against the wall behind it, revealing a makeshift room lit by kerosene lamp.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
In the meantime, regulating drivers and automobiles are the sole 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
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