Makeshift in a sentence as a noun

The timing was hard, since you had to get your makeshift paper jam out of the way as well.

One notices changes with the seasons, new makeshift huts in the allotments, the sky and light is always different.

When we arrived there was a man who had taken to the makeshift stage and was reading something into the microphone.

Their job is to provide clean, safe, effective transportation, not rolling makeshift homeless shelters.

It was no sketchier than the routes going to the 'burbs, and it wouldn't have made sense as a "makeshift homeless shelter", since the free part was only a few miles.

"Busses became makeshift homeless shelters, which probably ended up driving away actual commuters.

Makeshift in a sentence as an adjective

When Kevin Systrom and his team started building Instagram, I bet that they didn't intend to provide a makeshift online marketplace for the people of Kuwait.

In one incident the guards caught three people trying to jump a fence, they used a disabled toilet in one of the stores as a makeshift prison cell and beat the three 'suspects' up and kept them in there for 24 hours.

>Busses became makeshift homeless sheltersIn the context of NYC: as it is there is little stopping a homeless person from jumping a turnstile and spending all day or night on the 24 hour subway system.

But he felt, at times, like he was the only artist within this makeshift community that was really talking about how it felt, how it worked, what was so frustrating or nerve-wracking about it.

When you say "utilitarian, post-apocalyptic, hellscape Bartertown where people scavenge through wreckage looking for makeshift utensils and clothing", you mean Wal Mart, right?

A world made up of overly-reviewed, pretentious gadgets slightly edges out a utilitarian, post-apocalyptic, hellscape Bartertown where people scavenge through wreckage looking for makeshift utensils and clothing.

Makeshift definitions

noun

something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency

See also: stopgap make-do

adjective

done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"

See also: improvised jury-rigged