How to Use improvisation in a Sentence

improvisation

noun

• There’s the script, and there’s the story, but there’s also a lot of room for improvisation along the way.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 14 July 2023
• The threat to Roe had been a slow build, but the suddenness of the leak meant that the protest was marked by improvisation.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 May 2022
• In stride playing, the left hand moves between bass and chords while the right hand plays the improvisation.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• John Cassavetes used to do that, but the whole movie has to be set up for improvisation.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 May 2022
• The first was by a teacher during a ‘walk in the space’ improvisation that had nothing to do with race.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 10 June 2022
• These places live or die by their vibes, and what this means in practice is equal parts jazz improvisation and MMA.
  — Kc Orcutt, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022
• No, there wasn’t the smallest bit of improvisation in a film by Godard.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• Most of the time, making a salade composée at home calls for improvisation.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
• The idea was to try to work out a part from those improvisations and put them together in a way that felt attractive.
  — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023
• Repertoire and improvisation skills are the main focus of these groups.
  — Amanda Kondolojy, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
• His 26-yard run in the first quarter took some improvisation.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• There’s not a lot of improvisation in making a children’s book though, is there?
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
• Jason is so involved, and there was a lot of improvisation on set.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2023
• Over the course of two days, the team managed to film scenes full of improvisation and Easter eggs that nod to the Carrera’s illustrious past.
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2023
• For Shorter, improvisation has a tiny bit of lag time, a delay.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Hip hop, Aku reminds me, is an art form based on improvisation.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• The filmmaker gave Perkins some room for improvisation, and that's how Norman's love of candy corn came about.
  — Steven Thrash, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
• Regnault hadn’t tried to hide that the painting was a studio improvisation.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
• But so much came from the actors also, with their fierce embrace of improvisation.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
• The film's distinct conversational style stems from a mix of Levinson's approach to the script and a fair amount of improvisation while on set.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• The group’s sound mixed traditional country with the improvisations of psychedelia and jazz.
  — Jason Mellard, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2023
• The taping of the Town Hall concert was another feat of improvisation.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• The dance moves are rigid, though still delivered with flashes of improvisation, and the entire joyous sequence is the kind more movies could stand to indulge.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2022
• But Bridgewater is first and foremost a jazz singer, armed with a charismatic voice and a gift for improvisation.
  — Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2022
• Two of them were quite easy to agree on with Tanu and Harry, and two others – the dance improvisation at the end, and everything that happens on the turntable – those required a little bit of rehearsal.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2022
• In my free improvisation class, a group of musicians united in the art and movement space to generate a bunch of new sounds using games and graphic scores.
  — Monica Hooper, Arkansas Online, 7 Apr. 2022
• That improvisation was the first grain of deconstruction, of allowing myself out of the box I’d been put into.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
• Enter Email Sign Up The group had found a winning formula — repeating a catchy melody over and over, as in a pop tune, adding a bluesy rhythm and leaving room for improvisation.
  — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• But in other films, where the actor immerses themselves in the character, there can be a lot of improvisation.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• The writers wanted to get everyone comfortable again before a crowd, so the script was set aside for an improvisation game.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024