Ordinarily, however, we had to do with one of the makeshifts enumerated above.
But Neale's bright mind evolved makeshifts for food as well as for other things.
What were proper beds, and shelter, and restaurant-cooked food, compared with the jolly makeshiftsthat were made necessary by their present condition?
All manner of makeshifts had to be tried in place of tile ducts, which were not known in 1883.
But themakeshifts of the wagon life were not without charm.
The makeshifts of the wagon, the adventures of the road, were the only home they craved.
That sort of work does very well for your feminine relatives if they wish to amuse themselves in such ways or to contrive makeshifts to save the expense of furniture made in the usual way.
If you cannot afford to buy a vise, or have to work where there is none, there are a number of makeshifts with which you can get along quite well, though not as rapidly or conveniently.
There are also quite a number of tools, appliances, and makeshifts which you can make for yourselves, some of which will be described.
Your delicate, tender beauty must not be dragged down to face the unlovely realities and petty deprivations and squalid makeshifts of such an existence as ours would be.
I spent part of a day at Cork, wandering about the town, threading my way through the back streets and alleys, and seeing life reduced to fewer makeshifts than I had ever before dreamed of.
For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time inmakeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence.
I know well the craving of your nature for splendor and beauty, how necessary they are to you, and how dinkiness and makeshiftsirritate and depress you, take the heart out of you.
Certainly, women in beautiful and wonderful clothing, such as he saw daily, had had no chance with him against the attraction of herself in the cleverly adapted makeshifts of her own fingers.
The speaker heartily concurs with the author as to the large number of makeshifts constantly used by a majority of engineers and other practitioners who design and construct work in reinforced concrete.
In reinforced concrete work the detailer has often felt the need of some simple and efficient means of attaching one bar to another, but, in its absence, it is inexcusable that he should resort to such makeshifts as are commonly used.
Some of the garments which it borrowed from sister forms of construction in its short infancy still cling to it, and, while these were, perhaps, the best makeshifts under the circumstances, they fit badly and should be discarded.
All this is to say that through certain makeshifts and survivals, whose forms and functions are nowhere clearly defined, the governments of the six Britannic nations come in occasional contact with each other.
And the lack of power behind the decrees of Downing Street results in an accumulation of makeshifts that is provocative of future troubles.
The things Grierson and he had looked on as scarcely creditable makeshifts were approved as sound business, and they had given him money.
Against Welliver and the Clothespin Club he would have to defend himself by business makeshifts and financial strategy.
At the best, these log-houses were poor makeshifts for dwellings in the severe winter weather along the bleak New England coast.
But with even such makeshifts for roads, the planter had his lumbering old coach to which, on state occasions, he harnessed six horses and drove in great style.
As a result, some artists paint pictures of the same size year after year, so that the same frame may be used for all, and others resort to such makeshifts as Bishop was compelled to employ.
But these makeshifts must be artistically done, or the canvases are ignored by the judges.
Kit's home had been one of makeshifts and to be seated at a table where the stateliness and formality of the old Colonial days was being retained, made her uneasy and anxious for fear she might make some blunder.
These bone implements are then to be considered as makeshifts or substitutes for the stone hammer, when stones suitable for making the latter could not be procured.
Now, such stones are rare at Point Barrow, and must be brought from a distance or purchased from other natives; hence the occasional use of such makeshifts as these.
Life was hard, but people soon became accustomed to makeshifts and privation, and most of them had plenty to eat, though the food was usually coarse.
Home Industries; Makeshifts and Substitutes Many articles in common use had now to be made at home, and the plantation developed many small industries.
The ingenious makeshifts and substitutes of the women were innumerable.
With overtime and some other makeshifts he was able to produce about four-fifths of his normal output.
But the makeshifts employed in Central Europe averted much of this.
On account of lack of space and the cost it is inadvisable to use this in a mending room, and makeshifts are generally necessary.
Some of these books were well-bound, the publishers evidently making a conscientious effort to meet the demands of the committee; others were makeshifts not worth one-half the extra cost.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "makeshifts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
