[
US
/ˈɪmpɹəˌvaɪzd/
]
[ UK /ˈɪmpɹəvˌaɪzd/ ]
[ UK /ˈɪmpɹəvˌaɪzd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
done or made using whatever is available
crossed the river on improvised bridges
the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear
the rock served as a makeshift hammer
How To Use improvised 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
- 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.
- The bodies of guards and servitors were heaped behind improvised barricades of furniture and demounted doors. The Golden Torc
- 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.
