They were makeshift affairs: a tree limb, pieces of junked machinery, concrete blocks.

A makeshift affair, but the best they could do, with so limited a time, and an inescapable duty waiting.

-was a makeshift affair, an excuse, a rationalization, and a poor one at that.

"It is a very makeshift affair, this," he said over his shoulder.

Though the kitchen in the south upstairs apartment was a dark, narrow, makeshift affair, whoever installed the cabinets was apparently trying to make them tornado-proof.

Initially, the ferry slip at Pier 78 was a makeshift affair with limited, yet increasing ridership.

It was a makeshift, thatched-roof affair on top of a concrete building with boarded-up windows.

No doubt, dozens of the others are makeshift affairs not worth reviving.

He had set some water on to boil and rigged up a makeshift affair of branches for her to hang her clothes on to dry.

The drive-in itself is a decidedly makeshift affair.