Example sentences for: emulate

How can you use “emulate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the political arena, Gary Hart, who tried so desperately to emulate the late John F. Kennedy, was called “the Kennedy lite candidate” ( Chicago Tribune , January 20, 1988).

  • The cover story on Teddy Roosevelt exhorts America to emulate his "nationalist-individualist" ideology.

  • Brownrigg's forte is her ability to emulate the "curiously banal, clever-clever, quasi-poetic style that seems to afflict so many inhabitants of cyberspace" (Geoff Nicholson, the New York Times Book Review ) in the many epistolary sections of the book, and she "wonderfully captures the ghostly dance of presence and absence that can characterize digital relationships" (Erik Davis, the Voice Literary Supplement ). (Click here to read the first chapter.)

  • When he tries to emulate Clinton's audience-meld technique, he overdoes it, grossly.

  • James K. Galbraith, a constant critic of the profession (and a frequent contributor to the American Prospect ), urges economists to emulate "vibrant humanities faculties" in which "departments develop viciously opinionated, inbred, sometimes bitter and tyrannical but definitely exciting intellectual climates."


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