Example sentences for: imitative

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

  • The most striking of the early works in the book are overwhelmingly imitative of the style of the American pictorialists.

  • The less romantic truth is that babble descends from the Middle English babelon and is probably of imitative origin, echoing the ba ba sounds typically made by infants in their repetitive chatter.

  • The nightingale does not have a directly imitative name, although the final- gale is related to yell , which is undoubtedly echoic.

  • And children's imitative words and the noises they make, the words they invent as they play with their vocal apparatus and explore the possibilities of the language.

  • The encyclopedic sizzle, packed into the back of the book, seems an (unfortunate) afterthought, imitative of a similarly constituted edition of the Collins English Dictionary , and quite sloppily put together at that.


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