improvise
verb (used with object)
to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize.
has improvised
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present perfectof improvise (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Because the kitchen is unusable, Blanca has to wash her dishes in the bathtub, and she has improvised a cooking area with a gas camping stove in a corner of her living room.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025
Newsome co-hosts the “Star Trek” podcast “The Pod Directive” with Tompkins and has improvised with him often.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
This week, football has improvised the perfect movie script, full of fight, heart, desire, determination, tears of anguish, tears of joy, unsung heroes taking centre stage and the impossible becoming possible.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2019
Lacking doctors and trained drug counselors, the city has improvised and focused on helping a few people at a time.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2017
Louis has improvised a bedroom in the small dining-room, that he may be near us at night if we should need him.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
