| Others recounted tales of the privations caused by the blockade and the makeshifts necessitated by them. |
| These hard-won, fond, wearisome, and implacable wives were, after all, just temporary makeshifts. |
| The reason why we put up with all these makeshifts is because we are so poor that we cannot help it. |
| May you once more take your stand on the side of Eternal Truth and not the makeshifts that pass for truth, today. |
| Lambert clearly explains the ways in which solutions and makeshifts were developed to answer, in the time available, the problems that the Royal Navy faced. |
| Compliments are the makeshifts of the elderly to call away attention from their spindleshanks. |
