Example sentences for: imitating

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

  • The songs in Disney's Hunchback , by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, are a mishmash of the ersatz--sometimes imitating the old-fashioned Broadway cleverness of George Gershwin's brother Ira, the lyricist (as in Hunchback 's "A Guy Like You," sung by stone gargoyles, which you can listen to briefly by clicking , though I don't advise it), other times imitating the modern Broadway cleverness of Les Mis (as in Hunchback 's opening number, which you can also listen to with a click , though why?)

  • The flickering light emanating from the small round windows gives the lake 15 reflections imitating the real moon.

  • The hunters lured the moose with a birchbark “horn” imitating the female call, and if that didn’t work, they poured water from a birchbark receptacle into a pond to reproduce the sound of the female urinating.

  • His passacaglia sounds less like Bach than like Bruckner imitating Bach.

  • They are imitating prison dress.


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