Money is a makeshift of the race.

Group-systems and electives seem like a makeshift for the real thing.

The Balance of Power has gone the way of other rickety makeshifts, but there must be no makeshift in our dealings with the Turk, no compromise and no delay.

On the other hand, it was a pity to see him,forty years old, and alone in the world,not a chick nor a child of his own, nor any home except such miserable makeshifts as a sailor finds in inns or boarding-houses.

With stiff hands they tried to improvise a makeshift with a stick of birch and some string.