Thesaurus / extempore

extempore

How to use extempore in a sentence

Never having known, before, how to roast an egg, I did not regret this lesson in the art of extempore cookery.

He spoke extempore and admirably, and could go on for a long time in that deep, appealing voice which had struck us to the soul.

Z. MARCASHONORE DE BALZAC

Carpenters were at work converting the library into an extempore theatre.

FRANK FAIRLEGHFRANK E. SMEDLEY

Carlyle had no faith in rapid writing of any sort, any more than Daniel Webster had in extempore speaking.

Prince Albert was present, and made a very sensible and pertinent extempore speech.

He not only excelled in extempore eloquence, but his peculiarities distinguished him from most other preachers.

The contrast when the good man got into the pulpit and began to pray in a borrowed, washy lingo—extempore in more senses than one!

Besançon preferred the paper cigarette, which he made extempore, as he required them, out of a stock of loose tobacco.

Then she asked him to pray, but he had never offered up an extempore prayer.

He enthusiastically admired Demosthenes and Cicero, and to hear him give extempore versions of these orators was an immense treat.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985