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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Davis improvised some solos when the moment was right, to the delight of the crowd.
  — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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 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
• As for the soul, Mraz turns to his trusty guitar and piano to improvise music.
  — Brendan Le, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
• At a computer, Levi would craft glitchy beats and Mastin would improvise lyrics to sing along with.
  — Ludwig Hurtado, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2021
• There was no uniform for the women, but Walsh found a man’s jacket and improvised.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• This means that Neal and his cohorts end up improvising a lot on site.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Without those arms, Hinch has been forced to improvise.
  — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2021
• The Chiefs were really lined up in the wrong formation, and Patrick Mahomes improvised on the spot.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• But her guiding light has been her own work, often born from looping a beat and improvising on the microphone until the record starts to take shape.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024