extemporize
verb (used without object)
to speak extemporaneously.
extemporise
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a variation of
extemporize.
Example Sentences
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As Johnson put it: “I’m under pressure not to extemporise policy on the hoof.”
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2019
To walk in the city at night is to extemporise.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2016
"Good question, I don't know," replied the lawyer, giving himself time to extemporise to give himself some more time.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2012
The willingness to stop whatever he was doing and extemporise something else instead kept me on my toes and engaged.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2011
By-and-by he would break off, and with quite another air extemporise the liveliest interpolations, describing his diagrams or specimens, restating his arguments, re-enforcing his appeal.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
