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Example sentences for: imitative

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The last bird is an American nightjar , where jar is also an imitative word, referring to its loud churring cry.
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.
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.
To aid the larger lexicographical enterprise, I'm interested in collecting samples of references to yadda yadda yadda (or similarly imitative terms) in any communications media other than paper.
The nightingale does not have a directly imitative name, although the final- gale is related to yell , which is undoubtedly echoic.