Use "jerry-built" in a sentence
jerry-built example sentences
jerry-built
1. The buildings aren’t well constructed and in the areas where Europeans tend to stay there has been a lot of very fast, jerry-built stuff put up in recent years … but … but there has to be hope
2. Five minutes and three shots later and the room’s jostling with Stephi’s jerry-built
3. in a drop-box and then staked as bait for two weeks in a jerry-built, mango-crate trap,
4. The slums and the wretched dwellings now occupied by the working classes - the miserable, uncomfortable, jerry-built "villas" occupied by the lower middle classes and by "business" people, will be left empty and valueless upon the hands of their rack renting landlords, who will very soon voluntarily offer to hand them and the ground they stand upon
5. Russians used to having jerry-built flats and useless cars provided by the State at knock-down prices were taken aback, and the changes certainly produced a lot of hardship at first
6. As the comedian in the piece remarked—and it is the only phrase you carry away—“Jericho must have been jerry-built