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Example sentences for: imitative

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The seagull is also known as the mew , likewise an imitative name.
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 last bird is an American nightjar , where jar is also an imitative word, referring to its loud churring cry.
The most striking of the early works in the book are overwhelmingly imitative of the style of the American pictorialists.
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.