1.   Once there, Davis used a makeshift rope, put together with bedsheets, to rappel to the third floor.

2.   Previously, they had rigged a makeshift rope harness around him, and it slipped off before he could be towed into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

3.   A makeshift rope bridge swings precariously over the gushing waters of an icy river as six men bent double under the weight of ammunition boxes make their way across.

4.   Men used their Afghan shawls as makeshift ropes to scale the walls to the ground.

5.   Traffic is reduced to painful negotiation of makeshift rope and pontoon bridges, increasing the isolation.