A makeshift dental dam can be made out of a condom or a latex or nitrile glove.

Our own children, aged 5, 8 and 12, remembering this stream from a previous trip, jumped in and were soon skimming stones and building makeshift dams.

The sundevil column slowed, still almost a kay below my makeshift dam, where small waves rolled back and forth and where steam was rising now almost like a fog.

The detritus ended up building a makeshift dam that diverted the river water onto the grounds.

This involved placing makeshift wooden dams in the ink fountain and using them to feed different colored inks simultaneously into the fountain, which produced a rainbow effect which was a bit difficult to read but visually arresting.

Loop's Misery Diminishing The drainage follows days of shoring up makeshift dams at several points along the tunnel system.

He allowed large budget gaps to develop, closed them with stopgap measures and then watched them expand again, like floodwaters overflowing a makeshift dam.

The voluntary evacuation was not met with widespread co-operation, as many residents stayed to battle the flood by building makeshift dams.

The night before the battle, he set a trap for Long by building a makeshift dam with sandbags to lower the water level in the Wei river.