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Example sentences for: imitated
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Suge, too, imitated mob style, valuing loyalty and insularity over all, surrounding himself with thuggish cronies.
He offered the wine-skin to Bill and to me, and when I tipped it up to drink he imitated the sound of a klaxon motor-horn so well and so suddenly that I spilled some of the wine, and everybody laughed.
According to the great Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen, there are five theories to account for the origin of language: the bow-wow theory, in which speech imitated animal calls; the pooh-pooh theory, in which people made instinctive sounds through physical or emotional reactions; the dingdong theory, in which people reacted to the environment; the yo-he-ho theory, in which people spoke when working together; and the la-la theory, in which speech arose from the romantic side of life.
More recently, the street fashion called "grunge" was imitated by couture designers at five-figure prices, and again, dirges could be heard.