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make-do

[ US /ˈmeɪkˌdu/ ]
NOUN
  1. something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency

How To Use make-do In A Sentence

  • This, he explains, would analyse our make-do-and-mend culture, our suspicion of the bravely new, our ingrained preference for the status quo.
  • I made make-do sawhorses out of the top of my new chest freezer and the top of two plastic storage boxes stacked on my stepstool.
  • I've since bought a proper gold band to replace the make-do ring, but Peter was cremated in his.
  • The legend was that as the old church in Ashland-the ‘Old White Church’ was no longer in use, its windows would make-do for the Holder ness Church.
  • With no UEFA Champions League football to play, Liverpool will probably have to make-do with the current squad and the Europa League.
  • The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
  • Hey, man; check it out, there are men, women, and children over in that Holy Hell of a hot desert land, those refugees, who are living in tents or make-do constructions out in the flat middle of a treeless, totally mangey land, this land of dust devils and mirages, this desert of where only human compassion can save them--yeah sure. What's Hotter Than Hot?
  • ODESSA - Several years ago, Odessa truck driver Chris Andersen was somewhere in the Midwest, eastbound in a make-do truck when he looked in his rearview mirror and saw a familiar sight - Chron.com Chronicle
  • This, he explains, would analyse our make-do-and-mend culture, our suspicion of the bravely new, our ingrained preference for the status quo.
  • The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
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