(n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alton Sterling’s family give emotional statement after police killing Someone set up a makeshift podium in the parking lot and a public address system.
(3) When they reached the car, Amburn was heaved into the boot and driven all the way back to Roland's house by the Chiemsee lake, near the Austrian border, where he was kept locked in a makeshift basement cell for four days.
(4) Two had died before they were rescued, and their bodies lay a few steps down the hall in the hospital chapel, now a makeshift morgue.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children play at a makeshift refugee camp in the village of Idomeni, northern Greece.
(6) Kondoli was pushing a makeshift wooden cart with the family's bedding and pots and pans, but it looked as if it was about to fall apart.
(7) The protesters have dug in at the square, with a hardcore of several hundred setting up a makeshift camp with tents, log fires and soup kitchens, while a large stage blasts pop music and speeches by opposition leaders.
(8) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
(9) In the image above, Syrian refugee children attend a class at a makeshift school near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, in August 2015.
(10) A makeshift field hospital in the square was attacked with teargas.
(11) Looking pale and drawn, he says: “We are trying to find out where he is, which hospital, but everything is very difficult here … I am trying, but it is difficult.” Hussain, speaking outside the makeshift field hospital run by medical charity Médicins du Monde, says his cousin Sadiq suffered serious head and chest injuries as the pair clung on to a moving train in the early hours of the morning.
(12) The 18-year-old Sheyi Ojo became the youngest goalscorer in Liverpool’s FA Cup history and João Carlos Teixeira was also on the scoresheet in the 3-0 victory as Klopp’s makeshift side secured a fourth-round tie at home to West Ham United.
(13) Vollmer died two weeks ago when a makeshift bomb exploded near his vehicle in Salman Pak, Iraq.
(14) Over the last 30 years, a dense canopy of trees has grown to shade its ramshackle cluster of caravans, old buses, huts and makeshift toilets, many decorated with peace slogans and abstract murals.
(15) Those that do make it to makeshift camps in the town of Cox’s Bazaar are facing shortages of food and water, and some are suffering from severe malnutrition.
(16) Most ship-breaking workers are migrants from the north who rent rooms in the warren of makeshift shanties that totter over the water’s edge.
(17) It was originally three bedrooms, but after we makeshifted it – changing the closets into rooms and stuff like that – we ended up with about seven "bedrooms".
(18) At least 2 million people have been displaced within Syria, many sheltering in bombed-out buildings or makeshift camps.
(19) Outside the prefabricated hut that serves as his makeshift office stand crates containing those treasured bottles of soy sauce, including one from a limited edition to mark the firm's bicentenary in 2007.
(20) Morsi had decamped from Itahadiya palace, the traditional seat of the president, which is now surrounded by makeshift concrete walls in anticipation of Sunday's protests.
Shantytown
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Presently, 33% of urban city dwellers live in slums or shantytowns.
(2) Read more The eastern state of Bihar this week took the unprecedented step of forbidding any cooking between 9am and 6pm, after accidental fires exacerbated by dry, hot and windy weather swept through shantytowns and thatched-roof houses in villages and killed 79 people.
(3) Sprawling over almost 100 square miles, this shantytown had scant electricity, running water or sanitation.
(4) The price of rented accommodation is so inaccessible that many workers on modest pay are having to take up illegal and substandard rooms rented out by modern-day marchands de sommeil , or "sleep vendors" (the term originally described those who rented beds by the hour to 1950s workers in shantytowns on the outskirts of Paris).
(5) Demand for housing turned the area near the hypocentre into a shantytown of 10,000 homes that were little more than wooden shacks, with sanitary facilities shared among several households.
(6) When he was shot, King had been planning a Poor People’s Campaign – wildly unpopular even among the dwindling supporters he had at the end of his life – which was meant to unite poor whites, blacks and Latinos in a shantytown built on the Capitol Mall called “ Resurrection City ”.
(7) Graves, some with more than a hundred bodies, were dug in rural areas just outside the capital, while in the shantytown of Carrefour local authories said more than 2,000 corpses were burned.
(8) It started in the early 80s as a colonia - a shantytown built on land for which its owners could find no other use.
(9) Designer shops and luxury beachside restaurants sit cheek-by-jowl with crammed, tin-roof shantytowns strewn with rubbish and resembling Brazilian favelas.
(10) During the second half of 1986 the health and nutritional status of 254 children aged up to six years was studied, as well as the socio-economic situation of their parents in two favelas (shantytowns) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
(11) The road is in a shantytown on a hill overlooking a Coca Cola bottling plant in western Freetown, which has one of the highest rates of new Ebola cases in Sierra Leone .
(12) And against the cliffs, rocks and hills, the buildings looked so insubstantial – like a slight shift in the earth's crust and the forest would re-engulf the high-rises and shantytowns, and reclaim the land.
(13) NoViolet Bulawayo, who was born in Zimbabwe a year after it became independent and moved to the US at the age of 18, is on it for We Need New Names, which has been described a "visceral and bittersweet" portrayal of life in a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise.
(14) Heavy rains, which always cause flooding in this huge shantytown, also disrupted television reception.
(15) Another 54 people were wounded in the attack on the tented shantytown, said Mohammed al-Qabatis, a medic at the field hospital set up in the square.
(16) In a country scarred by huge disparities in wealth, Oiticica (who died in 1980) drew inspiration from the favelas (shantytowns) and their samba schools.
(17) This time last week Change Square – the tented shantytown in the heart of the capital – was a sanctuary for Yemen's pro-democracy dissidents.
(18) Researchers determined the antibody response to Cryptosporidium sporozoites in 6475 breast milk samples from 211 mothers of newborns living in the shantytown of San Juan de Miraflores on the outskirts of Lima, Peru to determine the association of breast milk with cryptosporidial infection rates, mean duration of infection, and age at 1st infection.
(19) in 1969 and settled down in shantytowns (villas miseria).
(20) Their substituting the district (barrio) for the shantytown points out their longing for a change in their situation.