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manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand
after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks -
perform without preparation
he extemporized a speech at the wedding
How To Use extemporize In A Sentence
- The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
- I'm discovering that I like Danilaw a lot -- he's got the ability to extemporize political speeches like a trained skald and he's also pretty funny. Don't expect your good heart to save your neck
- I don't really think they are very deadly, and I know our extemporized fuses are slower than our voyage is at the present time; but nevertheless the bombs have served the purpose, as you shall see. CHAPTER XLVII
- Two days I lay there, too sick to move, and on the third, reeling and giddy, supporting myself on an extemporized crutch, I tottered on toward San Francisco. THE DREAM OF DEBS
- Behind the jiggermast I lighted the fuse of one of my extemporized bombs. CHAPTER XLVII
- The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporise as occasion arises. Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals
- He carried it well, the only noticeable effects being a flush in his eyes and a loosening of his tongue to whimsical fancies and extemporized chants. CHAPTER XXIX
- The speaker can extemporize on any of a number of subjects.
- Approaching the island, the images of huge mist-shrouded crags say it all but Parris feels the need to extemporise and effuse, piling adverb upon adverb into a tower of babbling.
- Bach admired the theme, extemporised a fugue on it, and said that he would make a copperplate of it.
