Translations for „makeshift shelter“ in the English » German Dictionary

makeshift shelter N

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makeshift shelter

Notunterkunft f

makeshift shelter

Behelfsunterkunft f

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English

He converted his factory into a makeshift shelter and hospital.

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Within four days of their arrival they were taken into police protection having been found in a makeshift shelter near live train tracks.

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He led us to his makeshift shelter, cobbled together from bits of wood and twig.

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Around the red-brick corner, five beauties hum, glisten under a makeshift shelter, their master keeping watch like a shepherd over his flock.

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Most of them had spent the night under tattered plastic sheets or ripped pieces of tarpaulin as makeshift shelter.

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Inside the makeshift shelter, his wife was dressing to go to a neighbor's wedding.

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He had died inside a rusting bus that served as a makeshift shelter for trappers, dog mushers, and other backcountry visitors.

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This is a makeshift shelter that should be housing a maximum of 400 dogs.

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The school is closed for classes today and tomorrow but its gym has been converted into a makeshift shelter for the town's 900 residents.

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It defines "street homeless" as persons living outdoors in a makeshift shelter, a parked vehicle, or any other structure not intended for habitation.

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