(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.
Suffice
Definition:
(v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
(v. t.) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
(v. t.) To furnish; to supply adequately.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a folly to think measures to fix eurozone governance will suffice, however needed those may be.
(2) Around 10(7) leucocytes, corresponding to 1-10 ml blood, sufficed for the analysis.
(3) Since slight hydrostatic pressure on the subepithelial side suffices to reverse the net transfer, it is assumed that in vivo the filtration pressure of the capillaries is the motive force for net transfer into the lumen.
(4) Suffice to say, it was a long, difficult haul with various scares and alarms along the way.
(5) After pretreatment with ranitidine, a specific histamine H2-receptor antagonist, the diastolic pressure rise no longer sufficed to maintain a constant systolic pressure during LBNP.
(6) Our results demonstrate that the partial reduction of a guanine nucleotide, probably relative to some other compound, suffices to initiate sporulation.
(7) A two compartment model sufficed to account for the decay of the oral plasma concentrations in all seven subjects.
(8) Clinical judgment may suffice to classify the clinical severity of patients at the time of enrollment in prospective trials and can provide a useful method of controlling for casemix.
(9) 7 particle sufficed to initiate AAV antigen synthesis.
(10) The kinetics indicate that alkylation of a single SH group suffices to block opiate binding.
(11) 125I tests in vitro today play a very important role and suffice der detection provided radio-immunoassay is carried out, whether the latter concerns iodine hormones or the thyreotropic pituitary hormone and provided the diagnosis is not confirmed by one single examination.
(12) It was calculated that in all animals, 10(-14) mol of IL 1 induced significant neutrophil accumulation, whereas in many animals, as little as 10(-15) mol of IL 1 sufficed.
(13) Atenolol 50-100 mg and bopindolol 0.5-1.0 mg sufficed to cause reduction of DBP to the target of less than or equal to 95 mm Hg, when applied as monotherapy.
(14) "Satisfactory reduction" is insufficient in discussing ankle fractures; only perfect anatomic reduction will suffice.
(15) But [in the long-term] not just any solution will suffice.
(16) By delineating the structuring of this dilemma, in the context of a human studying the sensing of chemicals by bacteria, the author demonstrates that the untenable assumption mentioned above does underlie the traditional Western viewpoints; and this demonstration suffices to show the traditional Western 'World-View' as fundamentally flawed.
(17) Inactivation exhibits pseudo-first-order kinetics and a reaction order of approximately one for both enzymes, suggesting that modification of a single residue per protomeric unit suffices for inactivation.
(18) These data suggest that low concentrations of PAF-acether stimulate the human platelet secretion by activating the cyclo-oxygenase pathway, whereas higher concentrations also trigger other mechanism(s) that suffice to induce human platelet secretion and full aggregation.
(19) This method sufficed to straighten the penis in 10 patients.
(20) These localized lesions can suffice for the diagnosis of RV dysplasia in the absence of associated pathologies, such as ischemic heart disease or congenital defects.