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

A poet took the stage to extemporize a victory verse in Kazakh.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2019

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

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

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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2019

The greatest of these improvised-and-then-impaled-on-a-card stories is, of course, “Alice in Wonderland,” extemporized on a golden afternoon and recalled at leisure later.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017

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

If there were no armies there would possibly be no wars, but we have shown more than once that armies can be pretty rapidly extemporized.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 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

But it was that extemporizing, in situ mind of his that was revolutionary.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 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