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We slept in a makeshift hut made from old wooden boards.
We used a barrel for a makeshift table.
Movie subtitles
I'd hardly call it a room, it's so makeshift.
It's a makeshift, but at least they're being cared for.
But makeshift or not, the important thing is that we got it.
This is your makeshift room.
We've stopped the flow of water, sir. But it's a makeshift job.
Mr Spock. I want you to assist Scotty in maintaining that makeshift pump.
Brave men struggle in a makeshift operating room, while the dogs of war bark at their very door.
The people are fleeing to the north, trying to find refuge in makeshift camps.
In the meantime, for tonight, I've thought of a makeshift arrangement.
We are trying to deploy a makeshift solar sail to generate enough power to keep us alive.
Mrs. Teale. we'll be running somewhat of a makeshift affair for a while. and I wonder if you would consider taking on the feeding of our passengers. until we get our stations established?
One night, in a jealous rage, Kelly took a makeshift knife, or shiv and cut out the bitch's eyes.
Well, sir,just apply a smidgen of peanut butter to an ordinary pine cone. and you've got yourself a makeshift bird feeder, sir.
No, I might be able to put together a makeshift generator using the covariant oscillator on the runabout.
When a program suffers a glitch, it cannot be fundamentally resolved through makeshift adjustments.
At this moment I'm playing in a tin hut somewhere in Alaska, a camp in Australia, a makeshift theatre in the Caribbean, or North Africa.
Makeshift or not, the important thing is that we got it. The first to be devoted to psychosurgery in this state.
I did some makeshift stitches to keep the wound tight.
How, by donating the last portion of joy to die lightly and in the shelter of a makeshift roof to light up posthumously, like a word.
Grown-up men with money lead such makeshift lives.
Meanwhile, you dig a pit. line it with makeshift punji sticks. made from sharpened toothbrushes.
I know, I'm thinking of piecing together a makeshift spell like.
Here is our little makeshift theater.
A few steps from me men built a makeshift raft to cross the river.
Mr. Spock, I want you to assist Scotty in maintaining that makeshift circulating pump.
The Israeli hostages and the arab commanders. Who have held them hostage for this entire day. Has now left, gone to a makeshift helicopter pad at the back of the olympic village.
Using a makeshift radio patch, we then connected.
A makeshift environmental suit.
Bring in kind of like a portable studio, or a makeshift studio, and basically make the situation uncomfortable.
So, it's kind of makeshift right now.
Not bad with a poodle shooter and a makeshift silencer, huh?
And they took us to this makeshift hospital.
You can come with me now, spend a few hours in a makeshift tent watching an extremely slow-moving robot, or you can head off to a Hollywood movie studio.
News and current affairs
Last but not least, makeshift solutions such as protracted wage freezes may eventually erode the quality of public services.
There was an exodus by air, towards the Seventh Fleet patrolling the South China Sea; an exodus by sea saw waves of barges, fishing boats and other makeshift vessels.
Therefore, makeshift arrangements will have to be found.
So makeshift assistance will be sufficient to allow Greece to succeed, but that leaves Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Ireland.
Together they constitute too large a portion of the euro zone to be helped out by makeshift arrangements.
The children I spoke to told me of their continued desire to learn in the camp's makeshift schools, crammed into classes and taught in shifts running from before dawn until after dark.
This, in addition to four years of drought, has forced entire families to leave their villages for makeshift internal refugee camps.
Amid the chaos of camps, makeshift huts, and destitution, the fight for an important new principle of international aid has begun: even in times of conflict, children must have access to education.
I first met her in a makeshift classroom situated in a sea of tents; later, I saw her again, playing with other children on a rough playground.
But this is politically impossible at present, because Germany is adamantly opposed to serving as the deep pocket for its profligate partners. Therefore, makeshift arrangements will have to be found.