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without advance preparation- My Lord, before I return to Paris, there is one final matter I'd like to discuss—your impromptu flight to London.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- Mavis, eyes shining, was onstage, screeching out an impromptu number that had the dance floor rocking.J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
- Roy and Beatrice had left before the impromptu press conference was over.Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
- This state of things, of course, gave rise to many impromptu vigilance committees.Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Last year on her birthday an impromptu party started in the streets in her honor and lasted for three days.Kiera Cass -- The Heir
- I spent the entire day at the crash site, lingering at the impromptu memorial that had risen there.John Grogan -- Marley & Me
- This isn't impromptu: she must have been making a plan.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- It was an impromptu walkout following my injury.Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
- It broke out of the depths of his being, and then had to be dealt with, impromptu and fast.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- It was my father who finally cut the reporters off at one impromptu press conference.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- For, as you can fancy, our performance is all impromptu....Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- We've planned out an impromptu course of study for him.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- I took some brandy and water, and then went up past my impromptu bag—he was lying quite still—to the room containing the old clothes.H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
- I sat in bed with my laptop by my side, enjoying the online reviews of my impromptu interview.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- He felt so good he even danced an impromptu jig.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- The first impromptu memorial in the cornfield opened in my father the need for more.Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
- As they had, I moved in time with the music, making little impromptu turns and dance moves.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
- The next hour becomes an impromptu self-defense demonstration.Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
- It's impromptu," Dexter told him, tugging at his collar again.Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
- He gave an impromptu speech about the unquenchable African thirst for liberty.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible