I think what you call the makeshift contrivances at dear Helstone were a charming part of the life there. '. From Wordnik.com. [North and South] Reference
The disaster made 1.3 million people homeless, many of whom are still living in makeshift shelters. From Wordnik.com. [Haiti cholera death rate slows] Reference
The families are living here in makeshift wooden shelters, with straw mats hung over the top as a roof. From Wordnik.com. [Caroline Gluck: Rebirth Among the Flood Ruins in Pakistan] Reference
I seem to recall there huge flotilla's of boats near the end, strung together in makeshift communities?. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Flood by Stephen Baxter] Reference
Flames flickered atop the wicks of oil lamps and illuminated the faces of patrons seated at tables in makeshift restaurants. From Wordnik.com. [Night Bus] Reference
The Canadian War Museum is over 100 years old but it exists in makeshift quarters -- the old public archives building on Sussex Street. From Wordnik.com. [Who Killed Canadian History?] Reference
Here they eke out a hand-to-mouth existence in makeshift settlements around the water desalination plants that the government has set up. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction] Reference
Abandoned, dilapidated, what some would call makeshift homes line parts of the street. From Wordnik.com. [KLTV - Local and National News] Reference
There, divers discovered what was described as a makeshift laboratory “glove box.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Man] Reference
The men started to fight and one of them stabbed the victim with what police described as a makeshift knife. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
He was dressed in some kind of makeshift burlap kilt. From Wordnik.com. [DELUGE (Part 26) – Brian Keene] Reference
There was just a kind of makeshift ferry, a few small boats going back and forth. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2005] Reference
After spending a few weeks completing the arts sessions, we moved on to creating "makeshift" drums. From Wordnik.com. [The After School Club] Reference
And there are many villages and just kind of makeshift homes that are staggered throughout these mountains. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2007] Reference
The soldiers could then use the kits as a kind of makeshift armor by taping them to their bodies and humvees. From Wordnik.com. [Osama loves a polished cannon] Reference
Howard K. Stern hand in hand, arm in arm with, I guess, lawyers in some kind of makeshift security battalion here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2007] Reference
For Freeman, what's made the difference has been a kind of makeshift family of those who have cared along the way. From Wordnik.com. [Former foster kid overcame odds, with help from many friends, to earn law degree] Reference
A rocket like this can be made relatively easily, the police say, in someone's home or a kind of makeshift factory. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2009] Reference
Two had been simple wooden lean-tos'the kind of makeshift dwellings that followed the festivals from Hylo to Balifor. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
I guess that looks like a lot of other places we have been seeing, kind of makeshift hospitals and tents being set up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2010] Reference
She let her clothes lie where she shed them, until the floor was covered with a patchwork of fabrics, a kind of makeshift carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
If they were on their own means in some kind of makeshift boat, of course, you would assume that their condition would be a lot worse. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2006] Reference
'So, you see, I'm only a kind of makeshift,' she remarked. From Wordnik.com. [The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing] Reference
The boys have checked the flood with a kind of makeshift dam. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade's Double Dare] Reference
The poorer classes were scantily clad in every kind of makeshift garment, ofttimes in rags. From Wordnik.com. [The end of an era,] Reference
Indeed, even the TamilNet claims about this, and the Udaiyaarkadu hospital, refer to them as 'makeshift' hospitals. From Wordnik.com. [Asian Tribune] Reference
The victims were taken to a makeshift field hospital in a farmhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Travels With The Kla] Reference
The teenager was pummeled, and now sits half-conscious in a small tented area near a makeshift ring. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting To Survive] Reference
At night, mortars exploded in the zone as he slept in a makeshift dormitory in one of Saddam's former palaces. From Wordnik.com. [A FAILED-STATE MR. FIX-IT] Reference
In a space no larger than a tennis court, hundreds of foreigners are taking refuge in this makeshift inner-city shelter. From Wordnik.com. [Collapsed Hopes] Reference
The makeshift embassy of the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq occupies a dreary flat behind London's Victoria Station. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Crackdown] Reference
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