makeshift

More than 1.9 million people have been displaced, many of them multiple times, and 1.2 million of them are currently living in tents or makeshift shelters, it says.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Aquarium staff check on the makeshift nursery three to four times a day, but will soon increase those visits to every other hour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

A makeshift storefront houses an “anarchist bookstore” with activities organized by Matthew James-Wilson, who operates the Heavy Manners lending library and gallery in Echo Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The primary frustration has been the failure to clear encampments—clusters of makeshift structures that can span the length of half a city block.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

People in Leningrad also worked frantically to build makeshift defenses.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

Their own makeshifts provide the only bathing and refrigerating facilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

But with even such makeshifts for roads, the planter had his lumbering old coach to which, on state occasions, he harnessed six horses and drove in great style.

From American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur Fisk Gordy