How To Use jerry-built In A Sentence
- The works, while clear, are also ambiguous; a number look ramshackle, jerry-built, jumbled - even chaotic.
- They were jerry-built in the Victorian era, and then nearly shaken to bits during the Blitz. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
- The jerry-built result predictably leaves the show dependent on the songs, the production values, and the performers.
- Irish football is traditionally ridiculed but it was the side representing Scotland which was lightweight and jerry-built.
- Forms the sharp contrast with this is the State Theater and such the luxurious project and the jerry-built projects.
- In contrast, say, to the Museum of Scotland, the new parliament building is going up as fast as a block of jerry-built flats.
- The old jerry-built compilation strung together 27 different computer systems worldwide, most of which couldn't talk with the others.
- Like one of the postwar megastructures Hatherley cherishes, it may be a bit jerry-built in places, but it is bold and original, and it may change how you see British cities. A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley – review
- He explained how ‘Murphy kept driving the jerry-built contraption until the wheels came off.’
- It's a vast improvement over the jerry-built box speakers through which the New World Symphony used to pipe its concerts to the Lincoln Road Mall. Gehry Leaves the Risks to the Kids
