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Meanings of extemporize in English
Portuguese
improvisar Spanish
improvisar Synonyms
Examples for "improvise"
Examples for "improvise"
1
It is possible to improvise the whole scene with 'yes' and 'no'.
2
The second time they went through it, the musicians began to improvise.
3
Consider which small first-aid items are most necessary, and hardest to improvise.
4
All I could do was improvise desperately and hope for the best.
5
A faltering start, unsure whether to read his material or to improvise.
1
They had to extemporise crimes, and they were not scrupulous about it.
2
After dinner the older visitors sit down to cards, and the young people extemporise a dance.
3
I could very soon black myself all over, and a nigger's costume will not take long to extemporise.
4
They are forbidden to read, and forbidden to extemporise, and by practice they speak from memory-somewell, all tolerably.'
5
As I crossed the floor I tried to extemporise a prayer, but stopped short to listen, and never finished it.
1
He would certainly have proceeded to improvize impassioned verse, if he had not seen Arthur Rhodes on the pavement.
2
Mrs. Cary's head still rested against the aching shoulder, and Mrs. Carmichael made a sign to let her improvize a cushion substitute.
3
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.
4
Bickerton improvized a pair of climbing irons, and, after some preliminary practice, ascended in fine style.
5
'I do believe they are improvizing an operetta on the second bridge.'
1
You said yourself that you're trying to ad-lib your way out.
2
Give him one cue, and he'd ad-lib the whole play.
3
Being able to ad-lib is actually what it is.
4
As every move they make will be broad cast on live television ad-lib humor is out.
5
They do not use a script but ad-lib everything, using their own voices to portray the characters.
Usage of extemporize in English
1
And that night, with such instruments as he could extemporize, he operated.
2
The old man turned back to his wagon and began to extemporize.
3
He could extemporize on Good Form as he could extemporize on the piano.
4
You see now that I shall never be able to extemporize.
5
The young musician was irresistible when he seated himself at the piano to extemporize.
6
He wasn't confident enough to extemporize Shannon's new spell.
7
The class will now find it quite easy to extemporize the whole of a four-bar phrase.
8
Parallel with this work the child should be taught to extemporize melodies, and to sing them.
9
SIR,-Inthe complexity of our many social problems, it does not quite do to extemporize an opinion.
10
But he could not extemporize a speech.
11
He would extemporize short poems, singing them to his mother, who wrote them down as he sang.
12
Another method that some debaters follow is to memorize portions of their argument and to extemporize the rest.
13
There isn't much room to extemporize.
14
We had never heard him extemporize more brilliantly, with more originality or more grandly than on that evening.
15
And while one cannot extemporize the symbols and imagery of devotion, these will surely grow about any sustained purpose.
16
So strongly did its sentiment appeal to sailors that one never heard the shantyman extemporize a coarse verse to it.
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Extemporize through the time