How to use "makeshift" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "makeshift" in popular movie and book plots

  • Meanwhile, Penny and the mice commandeer Medusa's swamp-mobile, a makeshift airboat.  - The Rescuers
  • Knowing she cannot escape, she sets the baby on a makeshift raft of grass and sends her down the river hoping for fate to run its course.  - Willow (film)
  • While crossing a makeshift bridge, Charles falls into the rapids.  - The Edge (1997 film)
  • The Uruk-hai army arrive at Helm’s Deep, finding a makeshift army of civilians and Elves from Rivendell waiting for them.  - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • The next morning, the man has changed out of his uniform into a makeshift tuxedo and has found two jars of peaches.  - Two (The Twilight Zone)
  • In Burma during the Pacific War in 1945, a group of wounded Allied soldiers are at makeshift British military hospital in the jungle.  - The Hasty Heart
  • The wedding guests hold a makeshift trial for Curly, at Aunt Eller's urging, as the couple is due to leave for their honeymoon.  - Oklahoma!
  • He uses the spur as a combination climbing ax and makeshift piton.  - The Naked Spur
  • The end of the film finds Trentino caught in makeshift stocks, with the Brothers pelting him with fruit.  - Duck Soup (1933 film)
  • They settle down in a makeshift line.  - The Big Parade
  • Smax rushes through the makeshift portal to grab his partner, escaping just before the effects backlash throughout superspace.  - Top 10 (comics)
  • McCabe establishes a makeshift brothel, consisting of three prostitutes purchased for $200 from a pimp in the nearby town of Bearpaw.  - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • In makeshift camps, they hear many stories from others, some returning from California, and the group worries about lessening prospects.  - The Grapes of Wrath
  • In the process, they wake Godzilla using a makeshift lightning rod.  - Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
  • Subsequently, his penguin family carry out a makeshift funeral that culminates with them pushing his corpse into the water.  - Batman Returns
  • Lothos ignites her cross but she uses hairspray to create a makeshift flame-thrower and burns him before escaping back into the gym.  - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)

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