improvise
Example Sentences
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The film lives in its details — frost creeping along the walls, carbon dioxide levels rising, improvised fixes worked out step by step — as each small success only leads to the next crisis.
From Los Angeles Times
You can adjust and improvise in immersive theater.
From Los Angeles Times
One kind and patient spectator conscripted to play the school counselor had to remove her shoe to improvise a sock puppet, one of the tools of her empathetic practice.
From Los Angeles Times
The improvised prison pens—everything from old army barracks and training camps, barns and fairgrounds, derelict cotton warehouses and tobacco factories—were emptied out.
“We would improvise a lot, so we always had the rules as a guidance.”
From Los Angeles Times
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