How To Use Improvise In A Sentence

The professor improvised a poem in the class.
Targeting pod-equipped aircraft can make pre-raid surveillance videos, check for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), track targets such as gunmen or vehicles, and send information to ground units.
It may be that in the faint candle light the improvised cook of the party ebonizes the flapjacks and puts mourning edges on the bacon.
He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire. Times, Sunday Times
Gamaliel defined no more than the beginnings and ends of blessings, leaving the prayer leader or individual worshipper to improvise on the set theme.

Pianist Kenny Werner, bassist Greg Cohen and drummer Joey Baron,are incredibly gifted jazz improvisers who are no less brilliant as klezmer musicians.
Ordered by Sennett to come up with a more workable screen image, Chaplin improvised an outfit consisting of a too-small coat, too-large pants, floppy shoes, and a battered derby. Five People Born on April 16 | myFiveBest
The burden must rest, however, upon the partially improvised text.
It has also been used in Iraq in improvised explosive devices. Times, Sunday Times
We see them playing to throngs of hundreds in big clubs and to a handful of dutiful applauders in improvised performance spaces.
I think that the art of a storyteller is to take the story and improvise on it.
The bodies of guards and servitors were heaped behind improvised barricades of furniture and demounted doors. The Golden Torc
As long as you pull off the moves on screen you are free to improvise the rest of the time. The Sun
In a sandy field of half-grown cassava plants, a group of 30 farmers were fighting a plague of locusts with long-handled weeding hoes and improvised brushes.
The UN has already experience in supervising elections under very improvised conditions.
Wednesday The hand percussionist and world-music hybridist Mr. Rudolph leads a long-running ensemble stocked with seasoned improvisers, like the oud player Brahim Fribgane, the cornetist NYT > Home Page
The orchestral textures vary subtly and the music is alive with incident-written and improvised.
The church organist may improvise on a ground bass.
As an aside, it occurred to me that Tyrion could have fulfilled the prophecy if he'd killed Cersei with the same improvised garotte he used to take his revenge on Shae -- and that Jaime might find the Hand's chain of office "handy" himself for the purpose, given that his gold prosthetic isn't really suitable for tasks like strangling psychopathic sisters. Casting clues and possible solutions
Training in different genres, and an ability to play -- and improvise -- nonclassical music makes an instrumentalist more employable. Classical Musicians Learn to Improvise
It is to be found in the basso ostinato, a repeated bass line over which a keyboard player or lutenist improvises chords and a singer or player evolves a melody.
Improvised circus sounds like a bit of a contradiction in terms, since circus by its very nature requires precision, planning and exactness.
It was only in short, improvised moments, because the rest of the time was spent with one friend playing video games, another, assumably, making out with his girlfriend, and I just fooling around on his drumset and listening to Radiohead on his great new sound system. Oatcake Diary Entry
This series of 11 improvised duets with Toronto saxist Brodie West is a rambunctious pleasure.
This Toronto trio has left their mark on the scene with a unique style of improvised progressive breakbeat house, a sound driven by artistic ingenuity but upheld by talented instrumentation.
Andrew MuellerOnce upon a time, there was an amazing Channel 4 show called Lost no, not that one, in which teams were dumped, blindfolded, in exotic places and obliged to make their way back to London by hook, crook or improvised coracle. TV highlights 21/07/2011: Torchwood: Miracle Day | The Killing | John Oliver's New York | BBC Proms 2011: Mark Elder Conducts The Hallé | Art Of Survival | Shameless US
Clark says audiences are more open to improvised music than people think.
One of these days, you'll see me on the news, wandering around downtown Baghdad with a dazed, desperate look in my glinty eyes as I stumble down the streets stopping the passing terrorists as they prepare for a fun-filled day of setting off improvised explosive devices. Bluemeany Diary Entry
Fearnley-Whittingstall’s occasional efforts to explain butchery, like boning a leg of lamb (encouraging his readers not to bother with a professional but to do the 'hatchet job yourself — it’s quite easy to improvise'), reveal a tolerance for chaos ( 'It’s a bit tricky to explain') that may be without precedent among people who make An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
By then Saddam and eleven others had been "arraigned" on television in improvised proceedings of dubious meaning, which backfired politically when Saddam visibly summoned his powers of command and began to dominate the show. Ziad for the Defense
Bruce threw his infantry reserve into the battle, the arrows of the English archers wounded the men-at-arms of their own side, and the remnants of the leading line were tired and disheartened when the final impetus to their rout was given by the historic charge of the "gillies," some thousands of Scottish camp-followers who suddenly emerged from the woods, blowing horns, waving such weapons as they possessed, and holding aloft [v. 03 p. 0355] improvised banners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Depending on what profile you want to achieve, you may also need to improvise with lengths of dowel or similar implements.
By then Mike, though insecure in his ability to improvise, dreamed of being a jazz musician.
The neighborhood carpenter would improvise a coffin with wood that sometimes came off of somebody's wall or chicken coup.
There isn't much equipment. We're going to have to improvise.
Improvised restaurants and tea stalls spring up in the evening.
They start with an instrumental prelude where the main melody is played on the harmonium, accompanied by the tabla, and which may include improvised variations of the melody. The Qawwals and Qawwali « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
How much of the music is improvised? The Sun
Traditionally made with manioc flour, this is another thing I have had to improvise.
He trotted back to their improvised camp just as Garin hauled himself out from under the lean-to. A TIME OF WAR
Hand gestures to indicate the sighting of a hammerhead or a basking shark can easily be misunderstood if they are improvised at the last moment!
Traditional Basque folk poets improvise and sing rhymes on any subject.
To go with it, I decided to use up a couple of nectarines that were laying around, and I improvised a little tart.
Use these recipes as a guideline, but feel free to improvise!
The Army said it made safe what it described as a viable improvised explosive device found under the private car. Ireland.com Breaking News
I don't consider myself an expert on m-learning, but I managed to improvise a few words. Archive 2009-05-01
Two saves in particular stood out: an improvised double-stop from a close-range header by Papa Waigo N'Diaye in the ninth minute and, just before the break, an unconventional block with his armpit from a Wayne Thomas header. Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
In his eighties he could still improvise his signature double talk. Times, Sunday Times
Soloists find them as multifaceted as the album title, a phrase conveying at least four different meanings - delighted, face-painted, improvised, differences settled. Evening Standard - Home
European emigre classical pianists, from Sergei Rachmaninov to Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein, were among the fans of a virtuoso who could throw off improvised pieces as complex and orchestral in scope as the most advanced classical piano compositions. Art Tatum stuns his contemporaries in New York
Modern jazz players like to take a theme and improvise around it.
It has also been used in Iraq in improvised explosive devices. Times, Sunday Times
He said the improvised bomb was planted near one of the gates of the wharf.
We hastily improvised a screen out of an old blanket.
And for those who feel the need to defend their perimeter with fougasse, the Army Chemical Corps expedient recipe for improvised napalm is to mix powdered laundry detergent with gasoline until it has a consistency like applesauce. A Gunpowder Plot At The History Channel?
Below, I have categorized various types of improvised weapons.
The motor mounted a grass verge during a demonstration at an improvised circuit. The Sun
Hucheloup, one fine Morning, had seen fit to notify passersby of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this remarkable inscription: -- CARPES HO GRAS. Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
Talents, Incorporated couldn't improvise or precognize or calculate an answer to this! Talents, Incorporated
Shot on the back streets and alleys of Paris, the adventures have a loose, improvised feel.
Lack of sanitation is one of the greatest risks in Port-au-Prince, as more than a million people now live in 116 improvised camps without latrines in school yards, soccer stadiums and even the front yard of the presidential palace, said Steve Hollingworth, chief operating officer for CARE. U.S. military boosts aid to quake-ravaged Haiti
The insurgents who were there have vanished, leaving improvised explosive devices buried everywhere.
I looked up. The fire escape was empty. A dish towel fluttered on an improvised clothesline; someone else would live there now, some other couple.
Our job is to improvise the fifth act by submersing ourselves in the first four acts.
An American soldier's hand held video camera captured the detonation of an Improvised Explosive Device.
All these instruments give and require haptic feedback - music is a physical universe and the only way through it is for the improviser to engage in an endless assortment of empirical tests.
In saucy improvised couplets the troubadour called upon one and another to join the dancing, until before any one quite knew what was happening, the company in the lower hall was drawn into a winding lengthening line following the leaders in a sort of farandole. Masters of the Guild
I had a smashing time in Edinburgh last night, using my beard to its full comic potential in a somewhat improvised opening to my act.
Some time back I was asked about steps being taken to counter low-tech improvised explosive devices in Iraq.
Originally improvised (as distinct from military signals), fanfares are used for ceremonial purposes, for example to announce the entrance of a dignitary, and are characterized by reliance on the harmonic series.
In an attempt to rescue the truck's occupants, several people waded out to a high point of land and improvised a lifeline from barbed wire cut from a nearby fence and a spare tire as a buoy.
A sport match is an improvised drama, each beautiful moment unprecedented and irreproducible.
Aircraft factories broke production records, and a brand-new air defence system was improvised by a mixture of eccentric boffins and a bright young staff of mostly female technicians.
In his shabby Cologne apartment in 1973, Brinkmann used rudimentary means to improvise on a few scraps of paper.
Several days afterwards I went to the church for the special purpose of experiment; I seated myself at the organ and commenced to improvise on the swell organ with _flute_, _viol d'amour_, and _tremulant_ stops out. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
At least 50 improvised explosive device attacks occurred daily. Times, Sunday Times
He had improvised an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. Les Miserables
Improvised weapons such as shovels, chairs and table legs also can be used to fend off adversaries.
They were nice boys, brothers, who were drawn too deep into the dark depths of improvised and psychedelic music.
Army technicians also made safe an improvised explosive device left outside a bank in Donegal. Times, Sunday Times
A differently important story is that of the novel's narrator, who improvises, discovers her mistakes, and retells a story that refigures the past but remains nonetheless historical.
He was killed by an improvised explosive device while involved in an operation to search a compound in Helmand Province, the ministry said, adding that his family had been told of his death.
The work of military and civilian bomb disposal experts also involves the handling of improvised explosive devices planted by terrorist groups.
Playing Shrek's 1)talkative buddy, a 2)donkey, is 3)veteran 4)comedian Eddie Murphy, another great 5)improviser.
Hickman had come up with the idea in 1961 after damaging a pricey Swedish armchair from Heal's while using it as an improvised sawhorse. In praise of… the Workmate | Editorial
Attacks involving roadside I.E.D.s (improvised explosive) or suicide bombings are the norm as opposed to armies that once clashed directly—and not infrequently decisively—with each other.
A jazz musician might, typically, improvise over a background riff played by other members of the band. Times, Sunday Times
I heard him improvise on the _orgue expressif_, and afterward on a great organ which has just been built here by Cavaille for the cathedral of Ajaccio. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
On her right hand she had what looked like an improvised glove.
From the outset, when the performers strut, bird-like, onto the stage with wonderful improvised bird-sound pipe instruments attached to their canary yellow costumes, one is drawn into the show's parallel universe.
A Navy SEAL, a combat cameraman and cryptologic technician were killed in Baghdad on July 6 when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. Gulf War II
They improvised the characters' voices — 'but with a much naughtier storyline'. The Sun
Dr.W. E. Roth describes crescentic hooks of coco-nut shell and wooden hooks with bone barb, and also barbs improvised from one of the spines of the catfish. Tropic Days
During certain scenes of the play there isn't any script and the actors just improvise .
Jim Denley is probably the leading light in the field of Australian improvised music.
And the main difference I think between freely improvised music and the musics you quoted is, that they are idiomatic and freely improvised music isn't.
And toccata was probably also a improvised form which became a composition form later. Rolf Lislevand, Improvising with 'Nuove Musiche'
In freely improvised music, its roots are in occasion rather than place.
And, amazingly, all the dialogue was improvised.
The constellation of leg-and-genital wounds are in large part the consequence of stepping on improvised explosive devices - homemade mines - and are known as "dismounted IED injuries. Report reveals steep increase in war amputations last fall
And for those who feel the need to defend their perimeter with fougasse, the Army Chemical Corps expedient recipe for improvised napalm is to mix powdered laundry detergent with gasoline until it has a consistency like applesauce. A Gunpowder Plot At The History Channel?
Known as an electrifying stage performer and an adept improviser, Williams effortlessly switched between musical styles. NPR Topics: News
The lineup he's assembled embodies that dichotomy perfectly: it includes Ko Ishikawa, a member of the acclaimed gagaku ensemble Reigakusha who plays an ancient bamboo mouth organ called the sho, and Toshimaru Nakamura, an electroacoustic improviser who's worked with international heavies like Keith Rowe and John Butcher and specializes in manipulating feedback from a no-input mixing board. Chicago Reader
In this show, these three stalwarts of the international comedy scene pooled their comic resources with devastating effect with a mix of stand-up, sketches and improvised material.
A few of the horses, raised their heads from their improvised stabling on one side of the hall.
The studios have pianists and sometimes drummers or other musicians who improvise as the dancers dance.
She improvised the notes, the highs and lows but still stuck to the original song.
Country blues groups in the pre-war American south were sometimes described as skiffle acts, but it was Glasgow-born Lonnie Donegan who popularised the idea of making music with improvised instruments such as a washboard and tea-chest bass in the mid-50s. Lonnie Donegan brings the skiffle craze
I hadn't prepared a speech so I suddenly had to improvise.
The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw.
It sounds like kodo mixed with psychedelic rock and dance music, all improvised, but it's unclassifiable.
These improvised sacred symbols place the trees and the entire local biotic community at the center of the sacral yearning that has brought us here.
Sometimes I improvise and change the words because I forget them.
Sailors tore T-shirts to create bandages and tourniquets; they improvised and did whatever was needed.
The officers realised quickly that they were dealing with a roughly assembled improvised bomb. Times, Sunday Times
Thus vocalese is distinctly different from scat singing both because it is arranged and composed rather than improvised, and because it relies on language rather than simply sound.
He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire. Times, Sunday Times
Coffins were transported in improvised sleighs - usually barn doors taken from their hinges and pulled with ropes.
Timberlake improvises a coreography stolen right of Michael Jackson's worst days in crack and he's done, and goes home to play with his Xbox, while Madonna has to take a break that will last a couple of weeks, due to her arthrosis. Friday is Timbaland Day - Pt 1: Tim's Greatest Hits
This means improvised explosive device. Times, Sunday Times
Working with these gags in mind, the performers still retain the freedom to completely improvise the dialogue.
The welfare state he fashioned in place of classic laissez-faire was largely improvised.
This isn't counterintuitive; this is more like nonintuitive," said Andrew Sterman during a recent lesson as he plucked his oud, trying to repeat by ear what Mr. Shaheen improvised on his instrument. He Plays Arab Music, Makes and Fixes Ouds
Sahni was most impressed with him regaling the passengers with an uncanny ability to hold them with improvised speeches.
A jazz musician might, typically, improvise over a background riff played by other members of the band. Times, Sunday Times
With musical settings that evoke Rachmaninoff by way of Debussy and sometimes inflected with J. S. Bach, she often moved beyond the realm of jazz into a semiclassical sphere, although the label semiclassical really doesn't suffice, because the music is improvised. NYT > Home Page
In places, however, it is clearly improvised and then as a rule it is model doggrel. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
If an actor forgets his words, he has to improvise.
Given that Haslam has played and improvised enough characters to populate a small city, is there some quality that unites the less ephemeral ones?
We continued to let the music swell and move, and began to improvise, creating our own music.
They clearly enjoyed it so much they've reunited for this improvised comedy. The Sun
Holliday always appears to begin with feathery, illusionistic brushstrokes that suggest an expansive, cinematic space and then improvises over them with a repertoire of painterly conventions.
Not the least to his own amusement, he improvised his fingering accordingly for the rest of the night.
So he turned in the direction of their wayfare and scenting the breeze which blew from their quarter, chanted these improvised lines, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Solov had given Holder sixteen bars of music to improvise to, and the dancer grabbed at the opportunity.
The pianist forgot his music and had to improvise.
It was a great opportunity to write in a chamber music setting, leaving space for the bandoneon to improvise. Joseph Vella: Interview: Vince Mendoza (Jazz Composer Extraordinaire)
Norden bombsights were replaced by 20 cent improvised models to prevent the secret devises from falling into enemy hands.
Sometimes I improvise and change the words because I forget them.
Much of the comedy is improvised, giving willing punters a chance to join in the fun, and those less willing a chance to simply sit back and watch.
But let's be more generous about it and instead credit the boxer concerned with having had the imagination to improvise. Times, Sunday Times
The orchestrated and improvised anarchy builds to a climax and the tune ends shortly thereafter.
It is based on the concept of randomness and a parent's desire to spontaneously improvise a game that will entertain their little cherub for at least 60 seconds.
Was there a script, or was the plot mostly improvised during shooting?
Ordered by Sennett to come up with a more workable screen image, Chaplin improvised an outfit consisting of a too-small coat, too-large pants, floppy shoes, and a battered derby. Five People Born on April 16 | myFiveBest
Just as jazz musicians improvise in a jam session, two or more painters hold a visual dialogue where non-verbal expression provokes a response that in turn provokes a reaction from a partner.
He would improvise one layer, and then through multi-track recording, he would lay a second layer of improvisation over the first.
‘Mood Indigo’ is among the few numbers that can be heard repeatedly, especially when beautifully improvised by creative jazzmen.
Memory sticks found in Mr. Sarwar's home contained information about detonating improvised explosive devices on aircraft, while in woods nearby police found a partially buried suitcase containing materials necessary to manufacture hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, and several dozen liters of hydrogen peroxide. Three Guilty in U.K. Jet Bomb Plot
Spc. Deon L. Taylor, 30, of Bronx, N.Y., died Oct. 22 in Bela Beluk, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. When There’s Nothing On The Horizon You’ve Got Nothing Left To Prove | ATTACKERMAN
Leaders improvised eloquent orations referring to the usual civic virtues.
You might notice these don't have they regular friand shape - I've run out of cases and the Essential Ingredient doesn't have them in stock either so I've improvised and made them using large muffin cases about 7cm/3inch wide. Archive 2008-03-01
It's the sort of thing Mochrie extends to most of the improvisers he regularly shares a stage with.
In some ways the piece actually sounds like Sun Ra a little bit, because there's a lot of improvs in it - or rather there's sections where there's improvised bits in it.
He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire. Times, Sunday Times
He also learned the trick of using improvised wire strainers - a lever stuck into a stapled bight of wire.
Their improvised battle groups simply fought to the death where they stood. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
A very rough treatment was written, but most of the film was improvised on the spot.
To do this requires an easy-going personality, the ability to improvise, and a deep love of children.
The Quartet improvised the notes of the raga Revagupti, each instrument showing its tonal texture.
I fused them into this fictitious character and improvised things about a second marriage my mother had.
So we improvised, drawing a grid of squares and quickly writing one letter in each square.
You get an inkling of what's ahead as you pass shacks illegally linked by improvised wiring to the pylons above. Times, Sunday Times
Felix Page's _left_ side had been toward the balustrade at the instant Fluette snatched up the candle-stick; on the balustrade was a deep indentation where the base of the improvised weapon had impinged, after glancing; and the fatal blow had struck upon the victim's _right_ temple. The Paternoster Ruby
He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire. Times, Sunday Times
The studios have pianists and sometimes drummers or other musicians who improvise as the dancers dance.
At many of these events, advanced students spontaneously improvise solos or duets based on a theme given by audience members.
So Bob improvised his meals based off whatever he could find being cooked on the line, or stored in the icebox.
The vehicles will provide increased protection against grenades, improvised explosive devices, and small-arms fire.
Abdul Qar and his father stepped on an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), intended to target US soldiers, which killed his father instantly.
The officers realised quickly that they were dealing with a roughly assembled improvised bomb. Times, Sunday Times
Williams was known as an adept improviser who effortlessly switched between classical, jazz and pop styles. StarTribune.com rss feed
As in commedia dell'arte, they are always open for creative additions and dislocations, continually encouraging the actors to improvise, which means that the audience is activated in a remarkable way. Nobel Prize for Literature 1997 - Press Release
And thus ends my hastily improvised day, which I couldn't have planned any better.
A college can't expect students to accept more than one term in improvised, makeshift spaces.
Local jazzbos might also want to check out Charlie Biddle: An Improvised Life, a doc on the Montreal jazz scene fixture.
Gotta have a course in improvised weapons: When the Secret Service hold the only nearby guns and you just HAVE to take off your philandering Old Man's head, how to hurl the nearest lamp with devastating accuracy ... Home on the Range?
During the tour the commandos also discovered 320 improvised explosive devices.
Our printer was on the blink, some doo-hickie fell off and it wouldn't work, so I had to improvise the tags. Archive 2009-06-01
More conservatively, however, many reductionists reintroduced elements of composition into improvised music.
Assembled from various stabilizers, wing sections, nose cones, pipes, fuselage chunks, and other random parts, all held tenuously in place by an improvised web of twisted wire, the piece is a monument of stored energy.
This is an umbrella term for a group of musicians in Japan whose music is primarily atonal, noisy, improvised and loud.
By then Mike, though insecure in his ability to improvise, dreamed of being a jazz musician.
Shortly thereafter, the improvised trail which we were following wound to the edge of the river bank.
The other car bomb detonated at a site where experts were dismantling an improvised explosive devise.
The belief system behind tarantismo died out decades ago, but the three-day festival of Saints Peter and Paul at the end of June is still the best place to get a contemporary view of the customs once associated with it: especially compelling is the late-night phenomenon known as le ronde, improvised street performances of dance and music. Puglia's Fiery Pizzica
I forgot to bring my notes, so I had to improvise.
Cooking for me is like putting on a show - I like to improvise, whereas Nicky is much more precise.
The motor mounted a grass verge during a demonstration at an improvised circuit. The Sun
I am delighted that an accomplished jazz musician should choose a tune of mine to improvise upon.
It's an artifice that domesticates human pain and passion, that alludes to and improvises upon the world that's too much with us, but never lets the real deal come within a country mile. In Search Of A Shadow
We do everything from respond to emergencies involving unsafe munitions on the flightline to disarming improvised explosive devices.
In his autograph scores the solo part is often only sketched in or partly notated, and it is clear that he improvised throughout a performance, not just in his cadenzas.
I improvise and sing within the classical tradition.
Stopped by a police officer, Page had to improvise an accent.
She improvised, created and worked her vocal chords to a frazzle, dashed home and prepared dinner for the intellectuals who came repeatedly to Mrs Berio's table.
As long as you pull off the moves on screen you are free to improvise the rest of the time. The Sun
‘Guess the strap from my bag pulled it open,’ she improvises, moving quickly to fasten her shirt and cover up her exposed cleavage.
Cassavetes also sometimes includes partially improvised scenes in the finished film.
He had an uninformed idea on glass and his solution was improvised, as a military sniper would impro out in bad-guy land. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set

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