Makeshifts

"Well, it must be so," returned Captain Carbonel, "but I hate the idea of makeshifts and having imperfections concealed." ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

One camp in Ocean County, New Jersey consists of around 50 people living in tents, huts and other makeshifts shelters, The Daily Mail reports. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He knew just how expensive Mary's clothes were, yet he could not blind himself to the fact that Polly's vagabond makeshifts, cheap and apparently haphazard, were always all right and far more successful. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But there's still the product makeshifts that are on going. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The effect was more rustic and less baroque, and reminded him of all of the makeshifts that they had used when the Vale was first settled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To quote the American biologist Colin Pittendrigh, the whole thing is nothing but a ‘patchwork of makeshifts pieced together, as it were, from what was available when opportunity knocked, and accepted in the hindsight, not the foresight, of natural selection’. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

Am I the only one scratching my head, wondering why everyone hyped up turning OFF a few lights at 8:30 p.m., only to see some makeshifts lights turn ON in its place a mere 60 seconds later? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus ‘Lysol’ acts in a way that makeshifts like soap, salt or soda never can. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She allows no makeshifts for the discipline of hard work and of self-denial, for the culture of all the strengthful qualities. ❋ T. Thomas Fortune (2007)

Castle Carabas and all, with debts, duns, and mean makeshifts, and shabby pride, and swindling magnificence. ❋ Unknown (2006)

John was very pathetic on the subject of his dreary life, and the deplorable makeshifts and apologetic contrivances it involved, but he really seemed to make himself pretty comfortable. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Crusoe was always at makeshifts and had, in so many words, to play at a great variety of professions; and then the book is all about tools, and there is nothing that delights a child so much. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Yeah, these online stopgapping makeshifts are crude. ❋ Horace Jeffery Hodges (2005)

Do not stand on chairs, boxes, or other makeshifts to reach things in high places. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

"Yeah, my [bowl] [broke] so I had to [buy] some alluminum." ❋ Arogarn (2005)

"[arranging] a [row] of [chairs] to form a makeshift bed" ❋ @sasa_da_gal (2016)

This is kind of a [Makeshift] town Time to make some Makeshift [Mac and cheese] We didn't have a couch so we bought a [makeshift] one from a [thrift store] ❋ Frizbeeaj (2010)

Don't [waive] your [rights] with your [flags]. ❋ Nicholas Sloan (2005)

[yo dude] lets go [chill] at a makeshift party and drink [cheap] beer. ❋ Ktmo (2008)

Bro #1: - didn't see You at the gym yesterday, dude! Bro #2: - I have been stuck at the office till night bro, but I benched [the printer], did some [push ups] and worn out triceps lifting a water gallon. Bro #1: - You definitely went to the [makeshift gym]! ❋ =Matty HxC= (2013)

Where were all [the flags] before [9-11]? ❋ Denis Baldwin (2004)

[I'm pretty sure] last night me and a girl had [makeshift chemistry] because [i don't remember] anything. ❋ Sugartitts- (2015)

DaMn, I [Hate] [Makeshift] [Mondays] ❋ Ronnielogic3 (2013)

[That girl] [Dove] is totally a makeshift cinderella. [I saw] her doing it once. ❋ Millako335 (2017)