Sample Sentences forextemporaneous (auto-selected)
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She gave an extemporaneous talk on picking a college.extemporaneous = made without preparation
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As soon as classes ended in the spring of 1989, Chris took his Datsun on another prolonged, extemporaneous road trip.† (source)
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Some grant it; some despise it; one makes it the sole cry of her extemporaneous sermon upon the death of her granddaughter.† (source)
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No notes were in his hand, for he was one of the most brilliant extemporaneous speakers ever to sit in the Senate.† (source)
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The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons.† (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)
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"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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When recording his essay, Gingrich discarded what he'd written and spoke this piece extemporaneously.† (source)
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"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)
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Assist me, some extemporal god of rime, for I am sure I shall turn sonneter.† (source)
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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)
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It's a part of your cleverness to be able to produce premeditated effects extemporaneously.† (source)
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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)
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Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer?† (source)
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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)
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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)
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