Example sentences for: imitating

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

  • Of course, Flynn was merely imitating John F. Kennedy, who ran for Congress in 1946 by using a hotel as his 11 th District "residence."

  • Raphael is well represented by a stately Veiled Woman (Hall 8, Jupiter), a classic Madonna of the Chair and Maddalena Doni (Hall 9, Saturn), deliberately imitating the pose of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and Pregnant Women (Hall 10, Iliad).

  • 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.

  • [My point about mauve was that it has no particular usage associations but that devine and adorable , among other words, are “associated with ways in which some women but probably no men (except those imitating women sarcastically, homosexuals, or interior decorators) express themselves.”

  • 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?)


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