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Example sentences for: imitate

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Last week, the Daily Telegraph reported that HarperCollins had finished recording an audio version of the novel, using the voice of British actress Diana Quick, who, though she had been chosen because her British accent would not "distract" listeners, was "directed to imitate Indian accents for some dialogue."
Quemessourit became Missouri, Ookannasa Arkansas, Uneaukara Niagara, Machihaganing Michigan , and Potawanmeac Potomac . English speakers changed the pronunciations because the sound patterns in the Indian languages were so different from those of English that they could not hear, much less imitate, the exact words the Indians were using.
The rich and the noble used to put them on personal effects to imitate the ancient royal habit of stamping (or embroidering or incising) the king's property with his personal cipher.
Kaufman, who preferred to call himself a "song and dance man," was first spotted in New York clubs, where he did a faltering "foreign man" comic who could also imitate Elvis brilliantly.
What really is whir meant to imitate?