Makeshifts Sentence Examples

makeshifts

  • The whole system was full of looseness, complexity and makeshifts.

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  • Henceforth, so long as the Folketing refused to vote supplies, the ministry regularly adopted these makeshifts.

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  • Such improvements as had been necessitated were mere makeshifts, often made by stealth.

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  • The speech "Against Aristocrates," also of 352 B.C., reproves that foreign policy of feeble makeshifts which was now popular at Athens.

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