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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(91) Her father dragged an old chicken coop up to the smokehouse and improvised a makeshift homestead that sheltered the family for over a year. Eight people slept in two beds.
(92) On a makeshift couch against one wall a girl lay stretched out.
(93) People left flowers and candles at a makeshift memorial in Wroclaw, Poland.
(94) The makeshift fare would have to sustain him through the night.
(95) Workers are rushing to complete a makeshift levee by packing dirt on top of an old railroad bed.
(96) Survivors huddle together in makeshift tents with nowhere to go.
(97) One week ago, the metal warehouse was a makeshift prison for enemies of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi now it is a death house containing about 50 scorched skeletons.
(98) Many are living in school buildings or in makeshift roadside shelters.
(99) Garrido and his wife Nancy, who kept Dugard and her children in a makeshift hut in their backyard, face charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment and rape.
(100) Within a couple hours Taiwan Root had created its own makeshift hospital, triage was near door.
(101) Now, some have made makeshift tents from plastic pipes, while others conceal their store-bought shelters with blue tarps.
(102) I did not have my bunch of keys at the ready14) like a makeshift knuckle-duster.
(103) I did not have my bunch of keys at the ready like a makeshift knuckle-duster.
(104) A makeshift bed was rigged up for the sick person.
(105) A series of dikes and makeshift barricades designed to protect Bangkok from the full brunt of the floods appeared to be holding over the weekend, but experts warned the city isn't out of danger yet.
(106) But the makeshift boat, with a prow jutting out of the front and a taxi sign on the roof, was intercepted by the U. S. Coast Guard about 32 km off Key West on the southern tip of Florida.
(107) The locals are eating lunch in makeshift kitchens down grungy back alleys.
(108) The tanks left burning vehicles in their wake as they ploughed through makeshift barricades.
(109) They squatted side by side on the dirt, a crowd of village women holding sari cloth around them as a makeshift curtain, and poured soapy water from a metal pan over their heads.
(110) Ms. Sasaki staffs the help desk in the gymnasium, the urban center of this makeshift town.
(110) Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
(111) The dozen or so team members here are wet, cold and frazzled, hunched over laptops in a makeshift lean-to or hunkered down in a van.
(112) In one of the most serious incidents, 16 people were listed as missing after their makeshift home was washed away in a flash flood.
(113) They also played a game of soccer with a makeshift soccer ball ( fashioned by the Germans ).
(114) The soldiers Gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp.
(115) The mobile medical team knocked together a makeshift operating table.
(116) Diego, the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he is growing too 'soft' hanging with his pals and Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur's eggs.
(117) people have to pay even to use the rare communal lavatories that often overflow or to take a shower, so their ablutions often take place on sidewalks riven with makeshift drains.
(118) Her makeshift lie had done the trick , and she now felt perfectly at ease.
(119) Blast victims shown in a fly-infested makeshift hospital in a bank building in Hiroshima on September 15th, 1945.
(120) For example, never use a screwdriver as a makeshift punch, wedge, or pry bar.
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.