Some sentence examples which use the word 'stopgap'
It is only a stopgap arrangement.
The new king was, at best, a useful stopgap, in no way likely to interfere with the liberal revolution which had placed him on the throne.
If a corruption is left in a text when something might be substituted which would at least, as a "stopgap," give the sort of sense required, then one of two things must happen.