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Meanings of improvise in English
Portuguese
improvisar Spanish
improvisar Synonyms
Examples for "extemporize"
Examples for "extemporize"
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.
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 improvise in English
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.
6
In cloudy weather you can improvise a game on the dining-room table.
7
Under the influence of the spell, the great composer began to improvise.
8
Young and his band exaggerate their stage personas and improvise their lines.
9
His guests improvise so well you can't believe it's off the cuff.
10
How to improvise the Turkish Bath in your own home, without apparatus.
11
He was such a controlling driver-notonce did he let me improvise.
12
They had to improvise lodgings for the new consignment of mutilated humanity.
13
He was thinking he could unbolt the bookshelves, maybe improvise some benches.
14
So if this crew managed to improvise on the go, I'm impressed.
15
And I did my best to improvise a scheme of motives yesterday.
16
I want our starfighters to break formation and improvise, firing at will.
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Improvise across language varieties
United States of America
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United Kingdom
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