improvise

Example Sentences

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Smartphones are not meant to be out in UK classrooms either, but with no national rules on where they should be the rest of the day, schools and teachers are left to improvise.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

When we try to control all of the parameters of our attraction and devotion, we leave no room for the great Dancer to improvise the next move in our life.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

In war-devastated Gaza, where construction materials are scarce, Ayub had to improvise to build his small training facility.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Reiner led the creation of a 40-page document to prepare for the production, but realized that the only way to capture a documentary feel in the movie was to improvise on camera.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

She kissed her on the forehead, just as Ferula had kissed her only a few hours earlier in her own dining room, and then she calmly proceeded to improvise the rites of the dead.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende