improvise
verb (used with object)
to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize.
has been improvising
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present perfect progressiveof improvise (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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To pass the time, and to keep his young stepdaughter distracted, he tells her a story that he has been improvising at bedtime, which he calls “The Private Lives of Trees.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 15, 2015
Maxwell in Egypt has been improvising a few; Methuen at Malta says they can't make them there.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton
