extemporaneousin a sentence
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She gave an extemporaneous talk on picking a college.
extemporaneous = made without preparation
- As soon as classes ended in the spring of 1989, Chris took his Datsun on another prolonged, extemporaneous road trip.† (source)
- Darley and Batson met with a group of seminarians, individually, and asked each one to prepare a short, extemporaneous talk on a given biblical theme, then walk over to a nearby building to present it.† (source)
- Some grant it; some despise it; one makes it the sole cry of her extemporaneous sermon upon the death of her granddaughter.† (source)
- He could speak extemporaneously and, if need be, almost without limit.† (source)
- When recording his essay, Gingrich discarded what he'd written and spoke this piece extemporaneously.† (source)
- No notes were in his hand, for he was one of the most brilliant extemporaneous speakers ever to sit in the Senate.† (source)
- But his extemporaneous speech, in which he chastised Senator Foote for ignoring the instructions of the Mississippi Legislature (as he himself was to do twenty-eight years later), was a notable success, and at the end of the debate the students of the university "bore him away upon their shoulders."† (source)
- It's a part of your cleverness to be able to produce premeditated effects extemporaneously."† (source)
- The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons.† (source)
- "Who the devil is there in Ramilly County," muttered Amory aloud, "who would deliver Verlaine in an extemporaneous tune to a soaking haystack?"† (source)
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- All the same, Joachim discovered him one evening at the usual social gathering in the company of Hermine Kleefeld, her tablemates Ganser and Rasmussen, and, as a fifth, the lad with the monocle and saltcellar fingernail; with his eyes glittering undeniably brighter than usual and with emotion in his voice, Hans Castorp had delivered an extemporaneous oration on Frau Chauchat's peculiar and exotic facial features, while his audience exchanged glances, nudged one another, and tittered.† (source)
- [249] Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.† (source)
- The style of preaching he had chosen was the extemporaneous, which was held little short of the miraculous in rural parishes like King's Lorton.† (source)
- If I supposed you to be related to Foreign Powers or Native Boards, it is because you have a manner, a carriage, a dignity, which you will excuse my saying that none but yourself (with the single exception perhaps of the tragic muse, when playing extemporaneously on the barrel organ before the East India Company) can parallel.† (source)
- "Ah, Adolph, is it you?" said his master, offering his hand to him; "how are you, boy?" while Adolph poured forth, with great fluency, an extemporary speech, which he had been preparing, with great care, for a fortnight before.† (source)
- If a stoppage occurs in a thoroughfare, and the circulation of the public is hindered, the neighbors immediately constitute a deliberative body; and this extemporaneous assembly gives rise to an executive power which remedies the inconvenience before anybody has thought of recurring to an authority superior to that of the persons immediately concerned.† (source)
- In democracies men are never stationary; a thousand chances waft them to and fro, and their life is always the sport of unforeseen or (so to speak) extemporaneous circumstances.† (source)
- Peg, expressing her acquiescence in this arrangement, Mr Squeers turned the box bottom upwards, and tumbling the contents upon the floor, handed it to her; the destruction of the box being an extemporary device for engaging her attention, in case it should prove desirable to distract it from his own proceedings.† (source)
- …to do with him at school as you can, my lad," he said to Tom; and the command was obeyed the more easily because Mr. Sterling by this time had two additional pupils; for though this gentleman's rise in the world was not of that meteor-like rapidity which the admirers of his extemporaneous eloquence had expected for a preacher whose voice demanded so wide a sphere, he had yet enough of growing prosperity to enable him to increase his expenditure in continued disproportion to his income.† (source)
- Inn-yards, houses without roofs, and extemporaneous inclosures at country fairs, were the ready theaters of strolling players.† (source)
- Assist me, some extemporal god of rime, for I am sure I shall turn sonneter.† (source)
- Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer?† (source)
- And therefore he that has most experience in any kind of businesse, has most Signes, whereby to guesse at the Future time, and consequently is the most prudent: And so much more prudent than he that is new in that kind of business, as not to be equalled by any advantage of naturall and extemporary wit: though perhaps many young men think the contrary.† (source)
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