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
• Free jazz, which took root in the 1960s, pushed improvisation to the extreme.
  — USA Today, 22 Feb. 2021
• John Cassavetes used to do that, but the whole movie has to be set up for improvisation.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 May 2022
• Is the spirit of improvisation the same as with the Grateful Dead?
  — Paul Liberatore, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
• 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
• Williams praised Booker's improvisation on one of the All-Star guard's best nights of the season.
  — David Brandt, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
• And one of the things that often gets pushed to the back burner in all this improvisation is ergonomics.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2020
• As a boy, Wilkes was obsessed with the Grateful Dead and Phish, which gave him a love of improvisation.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• With a flair for improvisation, Taylor Heinicke has been pulling off these sort of bizarre plays most of his life.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 4 Oct. 2021
• The artists have a snazzy color sense and do improvisation well.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2021
• Both Wright and Kerouac were drawn to haiku as an art of improvisation.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2020
• There is also a lot of room for improvisation in this recipe.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 3 Apr. 2020
• 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
• But as with both Sorey and Burnt Sugar, improvisation is only part of the draw.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• But the aim of Live Without Fear is messy, live-wire improvisation.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• 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
• As with any item to enhance your plant’s growth, a light could require some improvisation on your part.
  — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
• Jason is so involved, and there was a lot of improvisation on set.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2023
• The piece concludes with roars and cries of such a collective improvisation over the bold and wondrous span of five minutes.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 June 2021
• 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
• The Louisville running back will follow his blocking up to a point, but then improvisation takes over.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 25 Oct. 2020
• The improvisation meant that the actors were often filming long takes, including one that was 53 minutes, according to Page.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
• The film, directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, also relied heavily on improvisation, garnering genuine reactions from the actors as little guidance was given on dialogue and the direction of the plot.
  — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024