Sample sentences for IMPROMPTU

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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

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