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Definition of make-do in English: make-doadjective meɪkˈduːˌmākˈdo͞o attributive Makeshift; temporary. 权宜的；暂时替代的；临时的 make-do shelters dotted the landscape Example sentencesExamples - In any case, we accepted that living in Britain meant being mired in a historical backwater, that our culture was a threadbare, make-do shadow of America's.
- Hay bales outside the M & M Café are yanked into wobbling lines for make-do seats, while the plastic ones under the pub's eaves are already occupied.
- I made make-do sawhorses out of the top of my new chest freezer and the top of two plastic storage boxes stacked on my stepstool.
- But as other make-do approaches hit technological walls, this will change.
- Sighing, Ari lay back down on her uncomfortable make-do bed.
- Inevitably, some foreign dealers moaned about the typical New York rawness of the make-do floors and walls of Piers 90 and 92, longing for a formal exhibition hall.
- Are people at least accommodated in make-do properties, or have they taken over abandoned properties?
- And the Blues' boss is extremely unlikely to tinker around with a mend and make-do loan move, or a temporary quick fix.
- But decisions should be based on sound science, rather than the make-do science that the Government seems happy with.
- In 1900, the track was widened to 2m so Rerekapa settlers could carry in supplies but the make-do road was often impassable in winter.
- Recreation was not yet a pressing problem since we did not have any free time and were too exhausted for anything other than resting in our make-do shelters.
- He shouted, shaking with force the piles of paperback books on his make-do bookshelves.
- The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
- Fixing basic generators and installing make-do central heating systems is not exactly Tomorrow's World.
- She even saw what looked like a make-do rubber-tyre swing swinging gently from one of the tremendous branches.
- Immediately Kyle was ushered off onto the make-do dance floor by a gorgeous auburn-haired girl.
- Color consistency helps camouflage the furniture mix, which, for many young couples, ranges from blow-the-budget to make-do to hand-me-down.
- It was unabashedly fun to play with and when in the hand, you intuitively know you have a real fighting pistol on-board, not a make-do pocket auto.
- The closer we look at the developmental biology of organisms, the more apparent the impromptu, make-do nature of their construction is.
- We nearly had a nasty experience with a ditch and a make-do bridge that it turned out we didn't need to cross anyway, and ended up calming our nerves in The Withy Cafe.
Synonyms meantime, meanwhile, intervening time, interval, interlude
Definition of make-do in US English: make-doadjectiveˌmākˈdo͞o attributive Makeshift, ad hoc, or temporary. 权宜的；暂时替代的；临时的 his make-do clothes and borrowed tie Example sentencesExamples - It was unabashedly fun to play with and when in the hand, you intuitively know you have a real fighting pistol on-board, not a make-do pocket auto.
- I made make-do sawhorses out of the top of my new chest freezer and the top of two plastic storage boxes stacked on my stepstool.
- But as other make-do approaches hit technological walls, this will change.
- In any case, we accepted that living in Britain meant being mired in a historical backwater, that our culture was a threadbare, make-do shadow of America's.
- Hay bales outside the M & M Café are yanked into wobbling lines for make-do seats, while the plastic ones under the pub's eaves are already occupied.
- In 1900, the track was widened to 2m so Rerekapa settlers could carry in supplies but the make-do road was often impassable in winter.
- And the Blues' boss is extremely unlikely to tinker around with a mend and make-do loan move, or a temporary quick fix.
- He shouted, shaking with force the piles of paperback books on his make-do bookshelves.
- Are people at least accommodated in make-do properties, or have they taken over abandoned properties?
- The closer we look at the developmental biology of organisms, the more apparent the impromptu, make-do nature of their construction is.
- The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
- Immediately Kyle was ushered off onto the make-do dance floor by a gorgeous auburn-haired girl.
- She even saw what looked like a make-do rubber-tyre swing swinging gently from one of the tremendous branches.
- But decisions should be based on sound science, rather than the make-do science that the Government seems happy with.
- Sighing, Ari lay back down on her uncomfortable make-do bed.
- Color consistency helps camouflage the furniture mix, which, for many young couples, ranges from blow-the-budget to make-do to hand-me-down.
- Recreation was not yet a pressing problem since we did not have any free time and were too exhausted for anything other than resting in our make-do shelters.
- We nearly had a nasty experience with a ditch and a make-do bridge that it turned out we didn't need to cross anyway, and ended up calming our nerves in The Withy Cafe.
- Fixing basic generators and installing make-do central heating systems is not exactly Tomorrow's World.
- Inevitably, some foreign dealers moaned about the typical New York rawness of the make-do floors and walls of Piers 90 and 92, longing for a formal exhibition hall.
Synonyms meantime, meanwhile, intervening time, interval, interlude
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