stopgap

How To Use stopgap In A Sentence

• Polmayne was a stopgap, a stepping stone, a place in which to sit back and look around before starting afresh. THE MAIN CAGES
• I urge you to call your state legislators today and tell them you reject these cuts as a stopgap solution to long-term inequalities that women face. K. Sujata: Government Budgets vs. Reality for Women and Girls
• That effort was described as a stopgap until the broader branding effort was set.
• There's a reason for this: EPs and singles tend to serve as stopgaps in the rock world, small offerings to keep the masses entertained and hungry between albums.
• The changes are simply a stopgap measure to prop up a program drowning in red ink.
• As a stopgap measure, many companies store passwords for these systems in files like spreadsheets and simple databases.
• That's the thing about ‘interim’ constitutions: They're stopgaps and place-holders until the real thing can be thrashed out.
• However, yesterday, the muddy white sheets were also on their way to the dump after being used as a stopgap measure to hold back the floods.
• Despite the great press given CPR, it was merely a stopgap measure. BLINDSIGHTED
• As a stopgap measure, water distribution is being regulated with the flow being turned on at certain times while they look for other solutions to the problem.