makeshifts

"Well, it must be so," returned Captain Carbonel, "but I hate the idea of makeshifts and having imperfections concealed."

The Carbonels 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.

Joy Bricker, Longest-Staying Marriott Guest Ever, Checks Out After More Than A Decade 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.

BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

But there's still the product makeshifts that are on going.

CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2010 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.

Elephant in the City 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’.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH 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?

Buzzine » New Math 2009

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’.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Thus ‘Lysol’ acts in a way that makeshifts like soap, salt or soda never can.

VINTAGE DOUCHE ADS » Sociological Images 2008

She allows no makeshifts for the discipline of hard work and of self-denial, for the culture of all the strengthful qualities.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007