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Example sentences for: imitative

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The most striking of the early works in the book are overwhelmingly imitative of the style of the American pictorialists.
The last bird is an American nightjar , where jar is also an imitative word, referring to its loud churring cry.
It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical , or it might be from the imitative word hiss ; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse , meaning a `severe scolding,' which is probably from a Biblical allusion.
The seagull is also known as the mew , likewise an imitative name.
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.