How to Use extemporaneous in a Sentence
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Such extemporaneous wellness tips are one of the perks of the job.
—Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2017
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As the extemporaneous song grows, others join in with musings of their own, call-and-response style.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 29 June 2018
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But the episode appears to have been much more extemporaneous.
—Kate Kelly, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
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His extemporaneous offer is good evidence of why the Trump legal team wants to keep him away from Mueller.
—Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Jan. 2018
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She was crowned state champion in extemporaneous speaking three years in a row while attending Montville High School in the 1980s.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
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Then, one of the most eloquent extemporaneous speeches of the 20th century tumbled from his lips.
—Alice George, Smithsonian, 2 Apr. 2018
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In the Power of the Pen district tournament, seventh- and eighth-grade students competed in a series of extemporaneous rounds of creative writing tasks, each in response to an open-ended prompt.
—cleveland, 18 Feb. 2022
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With Mr. Christie standing behind him, Mr. Trump delivered what seemed to be an extemporaneous speech.
—Yonette Joseph, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2016
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Donald Trump, the, uh, president, has of course thrown his own confused extemporaneous support behind this.
—Alex Siquig, GQ, 1 Mar. 2018
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With the hidden plant, small extemporaneous workarounds cause friction, which is already known by the operations crew.
—Andreas Eschbach, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
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In the Power of the Pen regional tournament, 7th and 8th grade students competed in a series of extemporaneous rounds of creative writing tasks, each in response to an open-ended prompt.
—cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
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His address lasted only 18 minutes — not a long-winded, extemporaneous marathon that is his style.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
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The Justice Department has worked hard to limit the damage from Mr. Trump’s campaign statements, which were often extemporaneous and rambling.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
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His extemporaneous comments in the wake of the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial are another example.
—Jonathan Holloway, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2014
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The show lovingly conveys all the details of court society: the Noh performance by torchlight, the extemporaneous verse, the calligraphic stroke falling on a blank sheet of paper.
—Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
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Trump's statement came during one of his rare but thrilling extemporaneous news conferences.
—Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2017
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The medium both sustains his need for the public’s attention and provides him plenty of material for the tweets and other extemporaneous remarks that in return land him more of that sweet, sweet TV coverage.
—Emma Stefansky, The Hive, 9 Dec. 2017
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The combination of extemporaneous performance and preëxisting art form enacts a trust across time and space.
—S. Whitney Holmes, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019
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Slain at just 39, the extemporaneous oratory on the eve of his assassination ensured that King would be remembered as a sort of American Moses.
—James Hohmann, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
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In the South, a Thanksgiving blessing usually involves some extemporaneous praying by someone who knows how.
—Greg Garrison | Ggarrison@al.com, al, 27 Nov. 2019
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Teammates Rory Rohde and Will Allen tied after seven grueling debates and were declared by the judges as co-state champions in extemporaneous debate.
—Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
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Between releasing multiple albums, breaking every type of record and appearing in these extemporaneous livestreams in 2020, BTS ascended to the zenith of pop stardom.
—NBC News, 11 Dec. 2020
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Extremely well-read, knowledgeable and an excellent extemporaneous public speaker as a three-term New Hampshire governor in the 1970s, my father had lost the power to generate speech.
—WSJ, 8 July 2021
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In one such chapter, Fowler describes Lincoln’s forceful, extemporaneous speech against slavery at the 1856 convention where the Republican Party was being formed.
—Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2022
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And the president’s capacity to lead the executive branch is, by most accounts, far greater than his capacity to speak in coherent, extemporaneous sentences on CNN.
—Vox Staff, Vox, 28 June 2024
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Those comments appeared to deviate from his prepared remarks, which were released in a Vatican bulletin that did not mention the extemporaneous references to the two former Russian czars, who invaded parts of Ukraine in the 18th century.
—Gaia Pianigiani, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
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Baker finds the extemporaneous speaking competition challenging with topics unrelated to the theme of the year.
—Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
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A young man of medium height and build, Zuckerberg comes across as conversational and extemporaneous — traits that are too rarely found among other senior-level corporate executives.
—Robert Reed, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
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But this year, a generation born at the dawn of social media instead found themselves in an extemporaneous, occasionally chaotic, conversation led by one of their own.
—Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2023
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As many of us were in a position to observe at the time, such models ranged from the highly structured and hierarchical environments of department heads, middle management, and line staff to extemporaneous gatherings of equals.
—Lettie Prell, Wired, 4 Dec. 2020
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