extemporize

Sensing an opportunity to extemporize, he looked around the chamber, pleased.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2023

A poet took the stage to extemporize a victory verse in Kazakh.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2019

The film franchise upon which the series is based has its fans who can lustily extemporize upon its merits as a criticism of class division and exploitation.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 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

Every place was animated with music, voices, brilliant colours, flashing jewels, the hilarity of extemporized comedy, and all the spirited incidents of a cleverly sustained masquerade.

From In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

And yes, most of us had to become "adept at extemporizing poetic toasts" before drinking because in a way by doing so we acknowledge our appreciation to the sacred tradition of wine making.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016

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

Despite the sensitivity of his palate and familiarity with the Scotch supply chain, I was pretty sure Gimli was extemporizing, trying to hustle me out the door.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2013

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