How to Use improvise in a Sentence

improvise

verb

• If you forget any of your lines, try to improvise.
• He had to improvise his opening speech when he forgot his notes.
• Good jazz musicians know how to improvise.
• The trumpet player performed an improvised solo.
• I wasn't expecting guests, so I had to improvise a meal with what I had in my refrigerator.
• Gere then went on to share that the scene had been improvised.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
• With the power still out, the gang is forced to improvise.
  — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• So much of that, Kieran improvised as well — the licking of the cheese.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
• Word soon got around about the comer who could improvise with the best.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• But the twist is that the guests don’t have a script and must improvise their way to finding each killer.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• And the fact that this is a guy who kind of improvises his way through life.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2019
• Those celebs are not given a script and must improvise their way through the episode.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 June 2022
• Both plays by Bellinger on the winning drive had to be improvised.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2019
• There’s just one catch – Bateman and Rudolph aren’t given the script and have to improvise their way through the case.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
• The event is all about the athlete's adaptability to improvise to the beat of the DJ's tracks.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2024
• The essence of the scene on the page was there, but there were definitely some pieces in the scene that were improvised.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
• Davis improvised some solos when the moment was right, to the delight of the crowd.
  — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
• Although their words are improvised, the structure of the show is not.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• The blocking broke down in front of Herbert, though, and so he was forced to improvise, to think on his feet.
  — Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 15 Nov. 2024
• And so George and I began to improvise the scene of me coming back for the first time and [George] seeing me for the first time in 23 years.
  — Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
• As such, the team improvised for the Oct. 17 show, setting up a riser in the middle of the amphitheater amid the seats.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2025
• Figuring out how to improvise with an AI is just one part of the project.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• That's the best because that's so rare to get to improvise in a dramatic way.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 12 Aug. 2022
• An early mistake forced her to improvise the rest of the way, fighting just to stay on the equipment.
  — Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
• The League of Their Own team encouraged Berlant to improvise.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2022
• Mebane had to improvise and find decor that would fit the prom’s theme: Hollywood.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 4 June 2022
• He is built like Jackson and is able to scramble and improvise when the pass blocking breaks down.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2023
• As for the soul, Mraz turns to his trusty guitar and piano to improvise music.
  — Brendan Le, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
• Our director, Scott Cooper, gave me a lot of latitude to improvise and embroider.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
• For the grand finale, contestants would be paired with local musicians and given a few hours to plan—or plan to improvise—a brief performance for whatever audience existed in Atlanta for this sort of thing.
  — Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025