extemporize

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

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

“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

And his extemporized speech bore this out, mentioning John Cage, Cecil Taylor, John Philip Sousa and Native American ritual music.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2014

Henry Arkell, tolerably at home at the deanery, had drawn away from the group and was touching the keys of the piano; some sweet, extemporized melody, played so softly that it could scarcely be heard.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

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

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