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Example sentences for: imitative

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Another bird with an imitative name prefixed by a personal name is the magpie .
The most striking of the early works in the book are overwhelmingly imitative of the style of the American pictorialists.
Gaak is often used for gagging, but gag itself was originally onomatopoetic, which raises the thorny issue of how much language was all imitative at one time.
The sparrow does not itself have an imitative name, although it was formerly nicknamed Philip , for its rapid twittering and chirping notes.
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.