Spanish
improvisar With little or no preparation or forethought.
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It is possible to improvise the whole scene with 'yes' and 'no'.
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The second time they went through it, the musicians began to improvise.
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Consider which small first-aid items are most necessary, and hardest to improvise.
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All I could do was improvise desperately and hope for the best.
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A faltering start, unsure whether to read his material or to improvise.
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And that night, with such instruments as he could extemporize, he operated.
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The old man turned back to his wagon and began to extemporize.
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He could extemporize on Good Form as he could extemporize on the piano.
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You see now that I shall never be able to extemporize.
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The young musician was irresistible when he seated himself at the piano to extemporize.
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They had to extemporise crimes, and they were not scrupulous about it.
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After dinner the older visitors sit down to cards, and the young people extemporise a dance.
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I could very soon black myself all over, and a nigger's costume will not take long to extemporise.
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They are forbidden to read, and forbidden to extemporise, and by practice they speak from memory-somewell, all tolerably.'
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As I crossed the floor I tried to extemporise a prayer, but stopped short to listen, and never finished it.
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He would certainly have proceeded to improvize impassioned verse, if he had not seen Arthur Rhodes on the pavement.
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Mrs. Cary's head still rested against the aching shoulder, and Mrs. Carmichael made a sign to let her improvize a cushion substitute.
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The sample size of late collapses is growing as a rotating cast of candidates try their best to improvize a convincing version of game management.
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Bickerton improvized a pair of climbing irons, and, after some preliminary practice, ascended in fine style.
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'I do believe they are improvizing an operetta on the second bridge.'
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You said yourself that you're trying to ad-lib your way out.
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Give him one cue, and he'd ad-lib the whole play.
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Being able to ad-lib is actually what it is.
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As every move they make will be broad cast on live television ad-lib humor is out.
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They do not use a script but ad-lib everything, using their own voices to portray the characters.
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You can just ad-lib your responses.
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That gesture encouraged her to ad-lib.
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I just threw the ad-lib in.
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He's forced to ad-lib.
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The people must ad-lib.
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CTE: Because animation is recorded and then locked into the characters, the producers allow the comics to ad-lib a little bit.
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Rather than announcing the names of the records, however, the half-cut engineer started to ad-lib, reeling off funny stories and even singing to himself.
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Pal, he thought, this could be the biggest role you ever played; just pick up your cues and ad-lib the hell out of it.
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In those days, when Sinn Fein politicians could be seen but not heard on television and radio, this audaciously apt ad-lib brought the house down.
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The New Yorker, October 31, 1970 P. 36 Talk story about and interview with radio ad-lib men, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding.
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He has also ad-libbed new material to many of his compositions.