extemporize

Example Sentences

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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