Improvised

Word IMPROVISED
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Improvised"

What do we mean by improvised?

To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, instinct, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.

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The word "improvised" in example sentences

Ordered by Sennett to come up with a more workable screen image, Chaplin improvised an outfit consisting of a too-small coat, too-large pants, floppy shoes, and a battered derby. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Despite donations and the promise of book and movie deals, most of the 33 Chilean miners trapped more than two months have returned to lives of struggle in improvised homes, often in gang-ridden neighborhoods lacking basic services. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Gotta have a course in improvised weapons: When the Secret Service hold the only nearby guns and you just HAVE to take off your philandering Old Man's head, how to hurl the nearest lamp with devastating accuracy ... ❋ Unknown (2008)

By then Saddam and eleven others had been "arraigned" on television in improvised proceedings of dubious meaning, which backfired politically when Saddam visibly summoned his powers of command and began to dominate the show. ❋ Unknown (2005)

You decide: Five U.S. soldiers were killed and another 5 wounded Saturday in improvised bomb attacks, the U.S. military announced. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It was only in short, improvised moments, because the rest of the time was spent with one friend playing video games, another, assumably, making out with his girlfriend, and I just fooling around on his drumset and listening to Radiohead on his great new sound system. ❋ Oatcake (2002)

QUESTION: Is there any significance to your use of the word improvised device. ❋ Unknown (2000)

She laughed at the comical picture his tall figure made in a cook's apron and he made her wear a waitress 'cap which he improvised from a Japanese paper napkin. ❋ Thomas Dixon (1905)

Alexander Liholiho, would often appear informally at our doors with some of his friends; the evening would be passed in improvised dances, and the company always grew larger when it became known that we were thus enjoying ourselves; sometimes we would all adjourn to the house of some friend or neighbor from whom we had reason to expect like hospitality, and the night would be half gone ere we noticed the flight of time. ❋ Unknown (1898)

"I am sure that a person of his experience and caliber can be very effective in dealing with issue of IED related incidents," he said, using the acronym for improvised explosive device. ❋ Greg Jaffe (2011)

Since then, the effort has grown exponentially to fashion countermeasures against the weapon that quickly became known as the improvised explosive device or IED. ❋ Fayetteville Observer (2010)

grenades on the roof, as well as four firearms, ammunition and what were described as improvised explosive devices in the home. ❋ By MATT FLEGENHEIMER (2012)

They called the improvised effort to hold the line on quality "the knothole rides." ❋ Ryan McCarthy (2010)

Sensors will measure blast effects from buried bombs known as improvised explosive devices that have killed nearly 3,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and wounded about 30,000. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was above all in the manufacture of homemade bombs, known as improvised explosive devices IEDs, that the insurgents made warp-speed innovations. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

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