A short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation

Usage examples of impromptu.

Steven Argent had just laid this matter in their hands, and gone downstairs to gather the remaining barons together for an impromptu council, and to announce that he had chosen Captains Kethol, Pirojil and Durine to investigate the murder of Baron Morray and Lady Mondegreen.

Army Corps of Engineers give a presentation at the town library, explaining their plan to stabilize the cliff at its most vulnerable points with impromptu riprap seawalls made of boulders dumped from above.

He then gave the lone guard orders to let no noble of the realm or stranger come near the two royals, then left the impromptu sickroom.

Then the knives and forks and spoons began their impromptu music against the water glasses.

Here the aisles widened out into an impromptu square and the wind tore at them as they stepped out of the relative shelter of the narrower ways.

Into the plaza came ten or fifteen boys, leaping, dancing cartwheels, forming impromptu human pyramids that promptly collapsed, to general laughter.

Vesian, I told the coachman to drive us to the Gros Caillou, where we made an excellent impromptu dinner, the cheerfulness of the guests making up for the deficiencies of the servants.

I also agreed with him when he said that he had warned her against making impromptus too frequently, as such hasty verses are apt to sacrifice wit to rhyme.

Aspinwall, Morrison, and I had almost daily impromptu meetings with Witten at which he would show us new insights following from his approach.

Taking advantage of this auspicious moment, Mr. Guppy presents his friend under the impromptu name of Mr.

Hannah fairly capered around the room, her plaits flying in an impromptu dance to the fiddle music.

Jerry sold pop, candy bars, Hostess Twinkles, and gum from an impromptu concession stand, and that was about how things stacked up.

Taking the liberty of laughing, I composed a few impromptu verses in which I named all I thought dainty and exquisite.

This impromptu and judicious amendment was greeted with cheers all around, and Imperial Vicarius Columella smiled as graciously as if he had intended offering the increase from the first.

I easily guessed that she was giving me an impromptu part in a play of her own composition, and I was to be a 'deux ex machina'.