Meanings of temporary makeshift in inglés

We have a feeling that this substitute-passage idea is just a temporary makeshift.

This galvanised bucket we were using was, I took it, a temporary makeshift.

This however was a temporary makeshift, he protested.

He always regarded railroading as a temporary makeshift, until he "got into something," and he disliked the passenger service.

Sometimes the suggestion works and sometimes it does not, but at best the relief is likely to be a mere temporary makeshift.

But it would at least have been a temporary makeshift capable of being transmuted under favorable circumstances into something less material and more durable.

Local residents gather inside their temporary makeshift shelter after a fresh 7.3 earthquake struck, in Bhaktapur, Nepal, May 12, 2015.

It is because man is so idle, so indisposed to assume or accept responsibility, that he falls back upon this temporary makeshift of a creator.

A turn of the road, a temporary makeshift, led them around Casilinum, whose little garrison lay close, nor opened their gates to friend or foe.

Earthquake victims gather inside their temporary makeshift shelter at a camp for displaced people after the April 25 earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 13, 2015.