improvise

Example Sentences

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Men carry buckets of water for the communal kitchens and improvised latrines while women stir massive pots over open flames.

From Barron's

She also cooked up the idea to improvise some Elvish, the fictional language of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novels.

From Los Angeles Times

A group of Muslim drivers at Newark Airport improvised a water station to perform their wudu by attaching a tap to a rain barrel and filling it with bottled water.

From Washington Post

We didn't want to lose the heart because a lot of times when you get improvising comics, we can just go all over the place and then everything just turns to s**t.

From Salon

Inspectors found boys at Cookham Wood in Kent were improvising weapons out of scavenged metal objects, including kettles, because they felt unsafe.

From BBC