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• The couple threw an impromptu kitchen supper when the dinner reservations fell through.From the entry kitchen supper
• For quotations using this term, see Citations:impromptus.From the entry impromptus
• An impromptu flypast by the Red Arrows finished off the special event in style.2021 September 22, “News in pictures: Red Arrows add to gala success”, in RAIL, number 940, page 29. From the entry flypast
• “Lady Gladstone was just telling us it was an impromptu affair.”2014, M.C. Beaton, The French Affair, →ISBN. From the entry affair
• I, as his impromptu valet, bore the brunt of his anxiety.2010, William James Henry [pseudonym; Rick Yancey], “‘Ich Habe Dich Auch Vermisst’”, in The Curse of the Wendigo (The Monstrumologist; 2)…. From the entry quaintrelle
• So if you ask Lasseter about car love, you get an impromptu prose poem.2006 May 14, Richard Corliss, “Get Your Motor Running”, in Time. From the entry prose poem
• Many times she added her apt, unschoolmarmish comments to impromptu discussions.1939, Anecho: The Yearly Publication of the Provincial Normal School, Victoria, B.C., page 6. From the entry unschoolmarmish
• Although gotten up impromptu, the luncheon was marked with all tastiness and elegantness of all of Mrs.1903 August 3, “An Elegant Luncheon: Given At Pleasant Home On Saturday Afternoon”, in Latrobe Bulletin, volume I, number 191, Latrobe…. From the entry elegantness
• Some streetgoers gawked as if watching an impromptu street play while others grabbed the hands of children and hustled away.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 24, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 131. From the entry streetgoer
• That is Rob Schneider performing an impromptu rendition of his famous character: the annoying guy who is wrong.2017 June 25, “Vaccines”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), via HBO. From the entry rendition
• There are psychopaths, papacides, scamping vampires (“scampires”?), droopy boom mics, narcoleptic background extras who engage the camera in impromptu staring contests.2015, Ryan Rashotte, “Two Foul Score of the Brothers Almada”, in Narco Cinema: Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico’s B-Filmography, New…. From the entry papacide
• During an impromptu shopping spree, Aunt Jewels and a dog named Maggie May are kidnapped and dog napped respectively.2006, Terry I. Miles, DOG Gone Christmas: A Cozy Little Murder Mystery, page xiii. From the entry dog nap
• From German to Martian, with love, I did an impromptu paraphrasal of a poem about a Spanish dancer.1963 November, Roger Zelazny, “A Rose for Ecclesiastes”, in Judith Merril [pseudonym; Judith Josephine Grossman], editor, The Year’s Best…. From the entry paraphrasal
• In the middle of the fun Rutherford reappeared on the scene, and the impromptu Greaze came to an abrupt end.1938, John Dudley Carleton, Westminster (page 66). From the entry greaze
• Then an impromptu square dance, the men devising original figures.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “After the Race”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 56. From the entry with a will
• Impromptu, selfreflexive, and distinctly owlish, the microscript is quite different from the two feuilletons that W. extracted from it for the periodical Sport im Bild.2005, Christopher Middleton, Speaking to the Rose. From the entry microscript
• Potter, former ASEE president, shown here giving an impromptu ochorina concert at a luncheon honoring Iowa State's Glenn Murphy, also a past-president of ASEE.1973, Engineering Education, volume 64, American Society for Engineering Education, page 21. From the entry ochorina
• An impromptu meal was pulled together and tables and chairs were pulled out of the garage to fill the dining room and accommodate all of the extra people.2020 December 29, J.M. Madden, chapter 16, in Embattled Return (Lost and Found; 6), →ISBN. From the entry bone apple teeth
• Periodically they would convene impromptu two-minute hate sessions to compare notes on the arrogance and futility of philosophy and its claims on the territory of AI research.2012, Giuseppe Mantovani, Exploring Borders: Understanding Culture and Psychology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry two-minute hate
• The conference started as an impromptu session in the coffee shop this morning when waitresses walked off the floor rather than serve four Negro men and women delegates.1947 March 18, U.S. Government Printing Office, Proceedings and Debates of the Congress, Eightieth Congress, First Session, page 2206. From the entry floor
• Tom and Joe, who had come upon the group of other pupils after the impromptu snowball throwing contest had started, advanced further to-ward their school companions.1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine. From the entry to-ward

Meaning of impromptu

1. adjective Improvised; without prior preparation, planning, or rehearsal.
2. adverb Extemporaneously; without prior preparation, planning, or rehearsal.
3. noun A short musical composition for an informal occasion often with the character of improvisation and usually to be played solo.

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How do you use impromptu in a sentence?

Impromptu is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “The party began with an impromptu rendition of “Happy Birthday”.”

What is a short sentence with impromptu?

“an impromptu speech”

What does impromptu mean?

Impromptu means improvised; without prior preparation, planning, or rehearsal.