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.
• 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
• Those celebs are not given a script and must improvise their way through the episode.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 June 2022
• 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
• That's the best because that's so rare to get to improvise in a dramatic way.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 12 Aug. 2022
• The League of Their Own team encouraged Berlant to improvise.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2022
• Mebane had to improvise and find decor that would fit the prom’s theme: Hollywood.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 4 June 2022
• He is built like Jackson and is able to scramble and improvise when the pass blocking breaks down.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2023
• There was no uniform for the women, but Walsh found a man’s jacket and improvised.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• A lot of the lines that Zach Woods improvised, the murder victim, that made it into the show, are some of the funniest lines of the whole season.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
• Moreover, streaming offers showrunners the chance to improvise with the length of their episodes.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 22 May 2022
• The Chiefs were really lined up in the wrong formation, and Patrick Mahomes improvised on the spot.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• The dialogue was improvised during rehearsals and used in the films.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• The show’s production process leaves plenty of room for the actors to improvise.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2022
• The two even got to improvise a bit playing Mortal Kombat in the arcade.
  — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• Under Knox, she was called upon to freelance and improvise more, make decisions in the flow of the game.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Aug. 2022
• With no end to the war in sight, hospitals are improvising.
  — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• In the predigital age, that often meant seat-of-the-pants improvising.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Many Chinese are now confronting the specter of a massive Covid outbreak that could stretch through the winter, and have been forced to improvise to fill in the gaps.
  — Tiffany May, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• It was improvised, freestyled, and deepened the music’s hold on the audience.
  — Heather Augustyn, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
• The whole scene was improvised since it was originally supposed to take place on a yacht.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Howery’s line readings sound improvised, and that’s a good thing.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
• Living in a small town off the road system, she was used to seeing her parents improvise.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
• In theory, it was supposed to be something that he was moved to improvise in the moment.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
• His instincts are to run, improvise and produce big plays.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024