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
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
But he returned to the microphone to extemporize on the technological trappings before him.
From New York Times • May 5, 2011
The old man turned back to his wagon and began to extemporize.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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