makeshift

How To Use makeshift In A Sentence

• A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater.
• The crews found a makeshift stairwell between the first and second floor that further hindered rescue efforts. Times, Sunday Times
• You'd think that the fact it took place, not in a makeshift basement church or at a remote backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building, might have attracted considerable media frenzy.
• The natives congregated in front of the main gate, or would peer over the walls, standing on makeshift bamboo stilts.
• The worst troubled flared around the shanty town 's makeshift mosque. The Sun
• Conditions in this makeshift camp on the outskirts of the town are appalling. Times, Sunday Times
• The studio built a movie theater on the island, and it was no makeshift affair.
• A makeshift wooden bridge is the only access to the ramshackle dwelling leading from the road.
• Nestling next to the ladies of the night were several mustached, glazed-eyed Afghan men who occasionally took unsteady steps onto a makeshift dance floor to bust some surprisingly graceful traditional moves. The Longest War
• Although the fitting of the saddle should as far as practicable be limited to the adjustment of the shape of the tree and to regulating the amount of stuffing in the panel; the use of a numdah with a saddle which does not fit the horse or which is not sufficiently stuffed, is often a valuable makeshift when necessity gives no other choice. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.