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
Like actors quick on their feet after an onstage calamity, the local theater community has improvised in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2020
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
It has improvised its magnificence and mad profusion upon the outskirts of simplicity and moderation are observant, for all their plainness.
From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by George William Curtis
