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Example sentences for "extemporised"

Lexicographically close words:
extemporaneous; extemporaneously; extemporary; extempore; extemporise; extemporize; extemporized; extemporizing; extend; extende
  1. The operation was repeated, and it was finally found that, by means of this extemporised ear-trumpet, the poor creature once more became a conversable member of society.

  2. On ascending the steep bank of the second stream, we found ourselves in front of the residences which had been extemporised for our party in the immediate vicinity of the corral.

  3. In these extemporised wells these fishes are found always in pairs, and I when brought to the surface they glide rapidly over the ground with a serpentine motion.

  4. Now it was housed in an extemporised hangar that was once a carwheel works, and made its ascent from a plain surrounded by barbed wire.

  5. To enter, it was necessary to lift away an extemporised one of planks roughly nailed together, which leaned against the aperture.

  6. In Strabane they extemporised a poor's fund by voluntary contributions of L30 a month, by means of which eighty poor families were kept from begging in the streets.

  7. The building up of the placenta by the mother, and the due performance of function by that great and wonderful extemporised organ, require certain favouring conditions, which have been never unperceived by the common sense of mankind.

  8. As it advanced we became painfully aware how unsuitable, under the circumstances, were the extemporised “houses” already mentioned.

  9. Conversation at mess turned upon the probable events so soon to transpire; extemporised plans by individual officers indicated the several views they entertained of what was to happen.

  10. So also were the remains of barricades and other extemporised defences.

  11. A guard sufficiently strong to protect the extemporised field hospital having been detailed, the general force resumed its march, the intention being to press on as rapidly as possible to the capital.

  12. We have one which we extemporised from an old Russian powder horn we picked up in the Redan.

  13. Anchors may be extemporised from forked branches of trees--the harder and heavier the better.

  14. The various modes by which beds, hammocks, and litters are extemporised by travellers will be fully dealt with when that subject comes under consideration.

  15. We know of no plan by which a comparatively comfortable resting place can be extemporised equal to it.

  16. Bullet moulds may be extemporised in many ways.

  17. Illustration] The following is an expedient easily extemporised and frequently used in damp soils, where water is scarce.

  18. When one of the iron davits of the quarter boat was bent by a collision, he extemporised a forge with some pig ballast, on deck, and, though the planks beneath were somewhat scorched, he rendered the davit again effective.

  19. A hard wood log is easily hollowed out by the aid of fire and cutting tools, and a pestle is extemporised from any suitable piece of heavy wood.

  20. Rifle shells may be extemporised by having little tin tubes the length of the conical bullet and the size of the gun nipple made.

  21. This little extemporised bivouac, as it were, with her domestics, delighted the young belle.

  22. Sometimes a towing path on the high bank was used, and sometimes a path was extemporised on the margin of solid ice, which in places was piled up in high sharp peaks that entangled the towing-rope.

  23. The lama was helpless from fright, and we had him lifted to his tent, where we made him recline on a bed that had been extemporised for him with boxes and things packed behind him on the windy side.

  24. One of the two whom Rollo and El Sarria had left triced up at the door of the royal prison at last got the extemporised gag out of his mouth, and found his breath in a lusty shout of warning.

  25. Then he was silent for a moment, and as she settled his head more easily on an extemporised pillow, he glanced towards the closed shutters of the little sacristy.

  26. I was bundled into a military office which had evidently been hurriedly extemporised from a lumber room.

  27. I felt round for the tin of cigarettes which I had extemporised to form a pillow before the incident, but was suddenly reminded that smoking was very much verboten.

  28. Many charming basin-stands have I seen extemporised out of even a shelf in a corner; but such contrivances are perhaps too much of make-shifts to entitle them to mention here, only one hint would I give.

  29. Fastening this line to the end of his extemporised rod, La Roche proceeded to dress his hook.

  30. In the midst stood a small table, extemporised by Frank out of a block of snow, and covered with the ample skirt of his leathern topcoat, which the increasing temperature of the air inside the igloo rendered too warm.

  31. I was especially delighted with an adagio, and with several of his extemporised variations.

  32. Since the time when the stage had joined in the struggle which ended in the triumph of German literature and art over buffoonery and extemporised pieces, the theatre had remained the gathering-point of literary interests.

  33. So every day they used to sit down to breakfast and dine together at a little table contrived out of a packing-case, and placed under an extemporised tent, for all the world like a young couple picnicking on their honeymoon.

  34. I think we may guess that in both instances the extemporised huts had some forgotten religious meaning.

  35. While Miss Arden remained all unconscious, and even a little amused at the strange shifts to which her brief stay and extemporised household at Mortlake exposed her, a wily and determined strategist was drawing his toils around her.

  36. Her extemporised household made her laugh.

  37. This occupied only a few seconds of time; and the tarpauling soon lay detached between the extemporised masts, that were still permitted to remain as they had been "stepped.

  38. In the midst of this the raft lay motionless, and the extemporised sail was of no use for propelling it.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extemporised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.