"Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . . "It's nobody's, miss." "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?"
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Extemporize
Synonyms for "extemporize" (39 found)
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11 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- импровизирам verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
German
1 entries- extemporieren verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
Greek
1 entries- αυτοσχεδιάζω verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
Italian
2 entries- improvvisare verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
- parlare a braccio verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
Persian
2 entries- بالبداهه گفتن verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
- سرهمبندی کردن verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
Polish
2 entries- improwizować verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
- zaimprowizować verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
Russian
1 entries- импровизи́ровать verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
Slovak
1 entries- improvizovať verb (to act, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize, Obama prefers the message to be just so.
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As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.
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The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.
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