Words similar to emulate

Example sentences for: emulate

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

This was a model that many young men grew up -trying to emulate, but this symbol is no longer acceptable to modern American society.
Gregorio Cortez, the border hero, and Américo Paredes, the scholar hero, both became figures that young Chicano students could respect and emulate.
It may be argued that in a descriptive grammar—how can a grammar be anything but descriptive? —comment about good and bad English are anathema, but weasily little comments can be inserted (as they are in dictionary usage notes) referring to careful speakers, educated users, their peers, and others whom users of a grammar might, conceivable, wish to emulate.
Our young friend should select a particular accent he wishes to emulate.
The cover story on Teddy Roosevelt exhorts America to emulate his "nationalist-individualist" ideology.