extemporize
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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
The ministers not only engaged with him, but invited him to extemporize on Bible verses to the congregation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
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
At the finale's close, after Alex has haltingly extemporized about whether she deserves all the terrible things that have happened to her and mulls the possibility of life after death, she shrugs.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2021
They extemporized about immigration, opioid addiction, prison reform, domestic violence, universal health care, mental illness and gun violence.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2019
The greatest of these improvised-and-then-impaled-on-a-card stories is, of course, “Alice in Wonderland,” extemporized on a golden afternoon and recalled at leisure later.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017
“All the principal ingredients were extemporized off the top of my head. It was about a fortnight before I finished telling it to them the first time.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2016
Quard forgot his lines and extemporized and "gagged" desperately to cover the consequent breaks in the dialogue; leaving poor Joan hopelessly at sea, floundering for cues that were never uttered.
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
I was not a quippy teenager with a sarcastic response to everything that happened in my life,” Ms. Heller explained, once again extemporizing on the typically wide gap between film and reality teens.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 13, 2015
A melodic shape emerged, and bass and drums hit a single, sudden downbeat — thump! — as Mr. Glasper kept extemporizing with chromatic flair.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2015
But it was that extemporizing, in situ mind of his that was revolutionary.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2013
But he sounded marvelously in his element, extemporizing with controlled bluster and blending ecstatically with the other two horns.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2010
She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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