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.

  • Its own name is equally imitative, not of its voice but of the sharp whirring sound made by its wings when it suddenly flies up.

  • 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.

  • Another bird with an imitative name prefixed by a personal name is the magpie .


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