The speaker had to extemporize when she was asked a surprise question. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used without object) : He can extemporize on any of a number of subjects. From Dictionary.com.
You could extemporize on that for a few paragraphs, easy-peasy. From Wordnik.com. [The blogging life.] Reference
To extemporize a social system, a new humanity, or at least a new. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
I enjoy watching people extemporize on subjects they love and know cold. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking; Various Questions « Whatever] Reference
She was out of her league, and fed a script she didn't know enough about to extemporize. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
Because the problem domain was familiar, I was able to extemporize the talk, bringing my own experience to bear. From Wordnik.com. [Riffin' at No Fluff, Just Stuff] Reference
You made this quip to the "Philadelphia Inquirer," "Now, I will be a good boy and read it, or will I extemporize?". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2004] Reference
Bideford that day, to extemporize a pageant, a masque, or any effort of the Thespian art short of the regular drama. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
And — and — who could he trust to keep a clear head, who could he trust to plan and to extemporize in an emergency?. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Crisis]
While continuing to sift, the young man would extemporize on the beauty of life and death and their relation to the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Mission Of Honor]
There is no way to mitigate or extemporize these facts. From Wordnik.com. [TPMCafe] Reference
If you extemporize you can get much closer to your audience. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Public Speaking] Reference
Cor., lix-lxi; the permission to prophets to extemporize their. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
In vain did Dean of Angel's extemporize a short harangue in the hope that. From Wordnik.com. [Drift from Two Shores] Reference
Here he would extemporize theatres, and here he would issue edicts as from. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference
"You would extemporize on the beauty of the perspective," she supplemented. From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of the Mask] Reference
And that night, with such instruments as he could extemporize, he operated. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Point] Reference
I used to learn the songs by heart and invent and extemporize tunes for them. From Wordnik.com. [My Boyhood] Reference
Davis, he found himself forced to extemporize a busy afternoon for himself when. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference
In a few hours they could extemporize an impregnable fortress on an open hillside. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar: a Sketch] Reference
The young musician was irresistible when he seated himself at the piano to extemporize. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians] Reference
Bernard Shaw can extemporize on most subjects because he has seriously thought about them. From Wordnik.com. [George Bernard Shaw: Harlequin or Patriot?] Reference
When it dawns on us that we're not at our best, the first thing to go is our ability to extemporize. From Wordnik.com. [SYNTAGMA] Reference
In political life it was his special glory to extemporize statesmanship without sacrificing pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series] Reference
The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
It's probably not ideal for those who want to extemporize and edit later, as the results can be very surprising. From Wordnik.com. [Macworld] Reference
We had never heard him extemporize more brilliantly, with more originality or more grandly than on that evening. From Wordnik.com. [Beethoven the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words]
One thing I will say for the Virginians - I never knew one of them, under any pressure, extemporize a profession. From Wordnik.com. [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference
So strongly did its sentiment appeal to sailors that one never heard the shantyman extemporize a coarse verse to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties] Reference
Adrian had to extemporize, that the baronet had gone down to Wales on pressing business, and would be back in a week or so. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
After some of his music had been rendered by others, Beethoven was asked to extemporize, which he declined absolutely to do. From Wordnik.com. [Beethoven A Character Study]
He could scarcely recollect a word of his part, but he remembered the general drift of it, and had ready wit enough to extemporize. From Wordnik.com. [The World of Ice] Reference
In the manoeuvres of 1910 regiments were told off to extemporize means of crossing the canal in the quickest and most effective way. From Wordnik.com. [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference
Obama, who reads a teleprompter with panache and knows how to pose for a photo, often finds himself foundering when asked to extemporize. From Wordnik.com. [Pro Libertate] Reference
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