How to Use improvise in a Sentence

improvise

verb

• If you forget any of your lines, try to improvise.
• He had to improvise his opening speech when he forgot his notes.
• Good jazz musicians know how to improvise.
• The trumpet player performed an improvised solo.
• I wasn't expecting guests, so I had to improvise a meal with what I had in my refrigerator.
• And a lot of, a lot of our trip has just been sort of improvised.
  — Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 5 Mar. 2025
• The name of the bride and groom were provided, and the artist improvised.
  — Erin MacLeod, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2019
• To get to play and improvise with one of the greats was a special thing.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2025
• Gere then went on to share that the scene had been improvised.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
• With the power still out, the gang is forced to improvise.
  — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• So much of that, Kieran improvised as well — the licking of the cheese.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
• Word soon got around about the comer who could improvise with the best.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• But the twist is that the guests don’t have a script and must improvise their way to finding each killer.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• And the fact that this is a guy who kind of improvises his way through life.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2019
• Those celebs are not given a script and must improvise their way through the episode.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 June 2022
• Both plays by Bellinger on the winning drive had to be improvised.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2019
• There’s just one catch – Bateman and Rudolph aren’t given the script and have to improvise their way through the case.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
• The event is all about the athlete's adaptability to improvise to the beat of the DJ's tracks.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2024
• The essence of the scene on the page was there, but there were definitely some pieces in the scene that were improvised.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
• Davis improvised some solos when the moment was right, to the delight of the crowd.
  — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
• Although their words are improvised, the structure of the show is not.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• Goorjian: There's a lot of stuff in that movie that's improvised.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2019
• The blocking broke down in front of Herbert, though, and so he was forced to improvise, to think on his feet.
  — Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 15 Nov. 2024
• And so George and I began to improvise the scene of me coming back for the first time and [George] seeing me for the first time in 23 years.
  — Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
• As such, the team improvised for the Oct. 17 show, setting up a riser in the middle of the amphitheater amid the seats.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2025
• Figuring out how to improvise with an AI is just one part of the project.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• That's the best because that's so rare to get to improvise in a dramatic way.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 12 Aug. 2022
• An early mistake forced her to improvise the rest of the way, fighting just to stay on the equipment.
  — Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
• The scene where Bob is tied to the mast while sailing with Anna and her friends was also largely improvised.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
• The goal was not to do the most precise impression so much as to feel comfortable enough to forget about doing all the tics and instead live in (and improvise as) the character.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025