Improvised Sentence Examples

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  • Truth is the improvised machinery that is interjected, so far as this works.

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  • The men slept in the hall outside our door, and I could feel the deep breathing of the dogs and the hunters as they lay on their improvised beds.

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  • The count wished to go home, but Helene entreated him not to spoil her improvised ball, and the Rostovs stayed on.

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  • Arentschild won a notable success over the improvised Prussian and Coburg division of General v.

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  • Most terrorist bombs are improvised and so are known as improvised explosive devices or IEDs.

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  • Sure, I had to bolster some outside walls with hastily improvised buttresses, but bless it all, somehow she made it through.

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  • Hosted by Mad Flow and Soweto Kinch, these shows feature the region's best in improvised music and lyrics.

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  • Truthfully, many skits can be improvised to some degree and they will still work well.

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  • You can also give them clay tools or improvised clay tools such as textured sticks, forks, or even tiny squares of carpet or fabric to press into the wet clay to better define their sculptures.

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  • Songs are often improvised and they may interrupt one song to begin another.

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  • These songs do not fall under the usual jurisdiction of commercial music and are free to be copied, improvised upon, traded and remixed.

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  • Though some will have actual talents, such as singing, that can be done anywhere, the improvised talents of most kids will be hilarious for everyone to watch.

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  • Abdar-rahman's army was so ill provided that he mounted almost the only good war-horse in it; he had no banner, and one was improvised by unwinding a green turban and binding it round the head of a spear.

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  • Few facilities existed for carrying out the second stage, but they were speedily improvised.

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  • Similarly a quick improvised drama could have been used.

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  • A scar runs along the left side of his face, possibly the product of an accident with improvised explosives.

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  • Each of the five tracks appears to be freely improvised with varying degrees of intensity.

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  • Possibly, tho we're pretty much on our own with the totally improvised thing at the moment.

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  • In effect, these largely improvised scenes border on documentary with the kids drawing on horrifyingly true-to-life experiences.

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  • Performing ten " compositions " and two completely improvised pieces, there is a complete abandonment of anything approaching melody.

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  • The music they played consisted of a rhythmic progression of simple chords, supporting improvised lyrics sung to a clave.

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  • It is used to produce authentic Javanese music, which combines simple melodies with sometimes complex improvised ornamentation.

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  • Since 1985 he has improvised sketches and stories with the Comedy Store Players, of which he is a founder-member.

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  • We all began playing and then it was time for the improvised solos.

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  • Inspired by Czech animation and James Whale, " The Note " features a fully improvised soundtrack from Last Harbor.

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  • The Danes carry their chief on an improvised stretcher through Manchester.

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  • The non-specific pitch indication was also used with a specific rhythmic notation to achieve rhythmic unisons within ' improvised ' tonalities and harmonies.

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  • The Rumanian folk-songs, sung and often improvised by the villagers, or by a wandering guitar-player (cobzar), are of exceptional interest and beauty (see Literature, below).

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  • This was apparently one long improvised " avant rock " piece, featuring much squalling of feedback.

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  • It is like all the rooms of this period, shabby, with improvised or worn-out furniture.

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  • The solo is largely improvised and thus several versions can be found, often on live bootleg recordings.

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  • Skilled practitioners have removed peas from children's ears by tiny improvised corkscrews and marbles by cotton-tipped applicators with super glue.

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  • She loved elaborate costuming, and often improvised creative movement derived from the cultures of Egypt and India to lead the audience into her mystical mind.

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  • Over the years disco dance steps have gone from being simple improvised moves on a club dance floor to highly competitive, judged performances for world dance titles.

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  • Some women, especially those with long torsos who didn't want to wear a two-piece, improvised by wearing a sports tank over a bikini bottom.

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  • You'd make a good entrepreneur because you follow your instincts and often shock your conservative colleagues by your sudden actions and improvised plans.

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  • Although kids will most likely enjoy the improvised shows of magicians, dancers, and musician foung throughout the streets, some shows can also be enjoyed at the Las Vegas theaters.

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  • From the 17th century onward Purim plays were performed mostly by the children, who improvised a dramatic version of the story of Esther.

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  • It does not follow, however, from the fact that only stone tools were found at the bottom of the trenches that the monument was constructed when metal tools were unknown, because none of the Stonehenge tools have the characteristic forms of Neolithic implements, so that they might have been specially improvised for the purpose of roughly hewing these huge stones, for which, indeed, they were really better adapted, and more easily procured, than the early and very costly metal tools of the Bronze Age.

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  • A punitive expedition was organized under the command of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, the success of which was a remarkable example of good organization hastily improvised.

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  • Captain Gerlach made an emergency landing on an improvised airstrip and made preparations to take off with his precious cargo.

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  • In the old days, concertos included a cadenza which was to be improvised by the particular player.

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  • By 1915 the British had a total of 15 versions of standard and improvised hand grenades.

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  • It was the most comical shapeless thing, this improvised doll, with no nose, mouth, ears or eyes--nothing that even the imagination of a child could convert into a face.

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  • Being presented to the seven poets who were then engaged on the projected epic, Abu 'I Kasim was admitted to their meetings, and on one occasion improvised a verse, at Mahmud's request, in praise of his favourite Ayaz, with such success that the sultan bestowed upon him the name of Firdousi, saying that he had converted his assemblies into paradise (Firdous).

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  • Scapa Flow was preferred to the Cromarty Firth as his chief naval base by Admiral Jellicoe, but no preparations had been made and everything had to be improvised, guns being landed from the ships to strengthen the defences.

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  • As the French columns coming up from the south and west gradually surrounded him, he drew in his troops under shelter of the fortress and its improvised entrenched camp, and on the 15th he found himself completely surrounded.

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  • Despite these disasters Burgoyne pushed south to Stillwater, where he was defeated by Gates's improvised army of continentals and militia in two battles on the 19.th of September (Freeman's Farm) and the 7th of October (Bemis's Height).

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  • On the 15th of October he took command of the gun-vessels which had been built on the upper waters of the Mississippi, and to which he made important additions at an improvised navy-yard at Mound City, Illinois.

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  • Bruce threw his infantry reserve into the battle, the arrows of the English archers wounded the men-at-arms of their own side, and the remnants of the leading line were tired and disheartened when the final impetus to their rout was given by the historic charge of the "gillies," some thousands of Scottish campfollowers who suddenly emerged from the woods, blowing horns, waving such weapons as they possessed, and holding aloft improvised banners.

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  • General Lee had thus on the seventh day concentrated his army of ten divisions in the enemy's front; but Jackson's dispositions were unfortunate and General Lee's plan of attack was thus upset; and while seeking a route to turn the enemy's right the Confederate commander was apprised that a battle had been improvised by the divisions in advance.

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