makeshift

Example Sentences

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A makeshift window on the back wall opens onto what looks like a portal to outer space.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

For transgender students at a makeshift tea stall in New Delhi -- many of whom have not even come out to their families -- the implications feel overwhelming.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

A theatre is among the makeshift displacement camps in the city, with some 35 people living there, sleeping in the projector room and the auditorium.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

But he has been a cipher when it comes to the administration’s military “excursions,” as Trump calls them, and has reportedly even been exiled from the makeshift Mar-a-Lago situation room.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2026

A makeshift staircase at the side went up to the flat roof, where sheets and men’s shirts were hanging from lines strung on posts.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu