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

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 Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)