Synonym: improvised, jury-rigged, make-do, stopgap. Similar words: shift, make sure, make sense, flakes, shakespeare, make, apprenticeship, maker. Meaning: ['meɪkʃɪft] n. something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency. adj. done or made using whatever is available.
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(31) Talk about bodies in makeshift morgues, talk about police numbers-but don't mention the economy.
(32) I struggled with a makeshift skipping rope and tried to do a few more press-ups each day; it was not much fun.
(33) More remarkable was the way a makeshift pack, with only one Lions Test player and three other tourists, shaped up.
(34) Finally one end of the hawser was fastened to the bank, and the makeshift life raft was dispatched.
(35) The studio built a movie theater on the island, and it was no makeshift affair.
(36) Proteus started to cry and Kara disentangled him from his makeshift pouch.
(37) Behind her is a blank wall or perhaps a sheet tacked up as a makeshift backdrop.
(38) The bride, wearing a floating off-white crepe dress and matching heels, marched to a makeshift altar where the groom waited.
(39) He came in an open-necked shirt and walked to the makeshift podium without a very obvious security presence.
(40) There are makeshift street markets bustling with men, women and children who have been to hell and back.
(41) She dressed her makeshift altar with a necklace of twisted corn, two jam-jars stuffed with bouquets of oats and barley.
(42) The £700,000-rated Stockwell has this season excelled at full-back, in midfield and as a goalscoring makeshift striker.
(43) I found the little bodies there, wet and lifeless, all smeared with manure from their makeshift grave.
(44) Tallis went to the makeshift corral and let the animal out, stroking her bruised face, patting her flanks.
(45) They jeer at our efforts and laugh at our makeshift costumes.
(46) Diesel is available on the pontoons from a long pipe which extends down from a makeshift pump at the pontoon head.
(47) There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard.
(48) A makeshift chapel is partitioned off in the corner of the lowest security dorm.
(49) Another option being considered is building a makeshift boardwalk with large wooden mats plunked down atop the muck.
(50) And then the three of them join Peter in a makeshift game of baseball, hockey[http://sentencedict.com/makeshift.html], or soccer.
(51) Using an old tree-trunk as a makeshift table, we ate our picnic.
(52) The formalities were completed sitting on a makeshift seat of boxes surrounded by a rather bedraggled crowd of schoolboys.
(53) People lived in makeshift huts fashioned of petrol drums and torn parachutes, of wood, tin, and rice sacks.
(54) They rigged up the canvas boat-cover as a makeshift sail.
(55) Only Corrary was still subdued, remembering his brother lying in a makeshift grave far from his home Rorim.
(56) They are lying in a makeshift morgue, wrapped in brown blankets, and he is still at large.
(57) Those corpses, the ones he had buried in their makeshift grave under the old elm tree who were they?
(58) I heard the hiss of arrows and the crashing of some makeshift battering ram buckling the beams of the iron-studded gates.
(59) She hurried downstage and scampered down the makeshift gangway to the auditorium floor.
(60) She adjusts her hat, a round bush hat, and walks towards the makeshift landing strip.
More similar words: shift, make sure, make sense, flakes, shakespeare, make, apprenticeship, maker, make way, make out, make for, make up, makeup, make up for, lawmaker, make use of, make over, make a face, make fun of, take a shit, make full use of, make peace with, make a difference, make friends with, flesh, fresh, spokesman, flesh out, lift, gift.