Example sentences for: emulate

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

  • The losers: Slobodan Milosevic ("Some suspect Slobo and his wife may emulate his parents, who both committed suicide."

  • 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."

  • All their amenities--elevators, wider concourses, abundant toilets (especially for women), bathrooms, escalators, plentiful food stands, and luxury suites--make them far larger than the parks they claim to emulate.

  • 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.


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