Sentences with imitate
im·i·tate
I i - ...a genuine German musical which does not try to imitate the American model. [VERB noun]
- Clarence screws up his face and imitates the Colonel again. [VERB noun]
- How many times do you perform the drills for soccer yourself before allowing the kids to imitate the same?
- Iriki thinks it might be possible to teach naive monkeys to imitate the calls of others, and in so doing, help them learn what they mean.
- Many writers imitated the language of Shakespeare
- Her achievements in politics imitated her earlier successes in business
- They can imitate things we never expected they could.
- There's no need for you to imitate anybody else; they already exist.
- Glass made to imitate diamonds
- To imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
- Imitate implies the following of something as an example or model but does not necessarily connote exact correspondence with the original [the child imitates the father's mannerisms]; copy implies as nearly exact imitation or reproduction as is possible [to copy a painting]; mimic suggests close imitation, often in fun or ridicule [to mimic the speech peculiarities of another]; mock implies imitation with the intent to deride or affront [“I can't”, she echoed mockingly]; ape implies close imitation either in mimicry or in servile emulation [she aped the fashions of the court ladies]
- The students imitated the teacher behind her back.