Example sentences for: imitators

How can you use “imitators” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ) Boo's brief boils down to two main charges: that Dowd's breezy, sardonic style has inspired a flood of stilted, self-conscious imitators; and that "the Dowd crowd" contributed to the erosion of political discourse by placing style and personality above seriousness and substance.

  • What Americans do recall about Cagney they're likely to have picked up from imitators (including, of all people, Sammy Davis Jr.), who loved to mimic his nasal, rapid-fire delivery, and to re-enact that moment at the end of his films when he gets plugged with what seems like 300 bullets and reels theatrically for 12 minutes before dropping dead.

  • When the book was coming out in Black Mask , in 1929, the editor presumably took gunsel to be a synonym of gunman , and in that sense it was very widely adopted by Hammett's imitators, by the general public, and even, it seems, by the underworld.

  • Kaufman's Elvis imitation came before the King died and well before Elvis imitators were legion.

  • The bands are loud — they have to be to compete with the groups of Elvis imitators in black leather jackets and sideburns who also lay claim to some of this great free space, dancing in circles to the oldies on enormous boomboxes.


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