extemporize

Sensing an opportunity to extemporize, he looked around the chamber, pleased.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2023

People who loved it connected to its weirdness; art nerds who favor turtlenecks and superfluous scarves could extemporize about the various scenes and passages inspired by masterworks of the renaissance.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2020

It taught children to debate, extemporize, and advocate for themselves, and it helped them develop the vocabulary that tends to reap academic rewards.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 5, 2015

But he returned to the microphone to extemporize on the technological trappings before him.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2011

The old man turned back to his wagon and began to extemporize.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

At the finale's close, after Alex has haltingly extemporized about whether she deserves all the terrible things that have happened to her and mulls the possibility of life after death, she shrugs.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2021

Whether that feat was intentional or extemporized — Bergreen appears to lean toward the first — it was no fluke.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2021

They extemporized about immigration, opioid addiction, prison reform, domestic violence, universal health care, mental illness and gun violence.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2019

And his extemporized speech bore this out, mentioning John Cage, Cecil Taylor, John Philip Sousa and Native American ritual music.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2014

The Society of the Friends of the People was originally an after-dinner folly, extemporized at the house of a man who afterwards gained an earldom by denouncing it as seditious.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

And yes, most of us had to become "adept at extemporizing poetic toasts" before drinking because in a way by doing so we acknowledge our appreciation to the sacred tradition of wine making.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016

I was not a quippy teenager with a sarcastic response to everything that happened in my life,” Ms. Heller explained, once again extemporizing on the typically wide gap between film and reality teens.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 13, 2015

A melodic shape emerged, and bass and drums hit a single, sudden downbeat — thump! — as Mr. Glasper kept extemporizing with chromatic flair.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2015

Despite the sensitivity of his palate and familiarity with the Scotch supply chain, I was pretty sure Gimli was extemporizing, trying to hustle me out the door.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2013

She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald