How to Use imitate in a Sentence

imitate

verb

• She can imitate the calls of many different birds.
• He's very good at imitating his father's voice.
• Her style has been imitated by many other writers.
• It’s not the substance that Democrats should imitate but the style.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2022
• The fringe of the wrap is supposed to imitate the tall desert grasses that the dancers move through during the Bear Dance.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2022
• Caribbeans gotta have that swing, and that’s hard for outsiders to imitate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
• Art imitates life with Wayans Jr. in the role of his son Junior.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
• A few dozen people showed up to hear who could best imitate the warble of the goose, called nigliq.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2022
• As the boys spun the parasols to imitate wheels, Nancy and the Artful Dodger walked to center.
  — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• The kind that you’re born with and other people try to imitate.
  — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
• At the end of his tune, Mayer lets out a loud noise, meant to imitate a donkey call.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
• Each tour is framed as a way to meet the artisans, rather than to learn how to imitate their craft.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• Lots of animals can imitate the sound of purring, among them bears and guinea pigs.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2022
• Lynn says that some restaurants have tried (and failed) to imitate them, and that people have tried to steal their recipes.
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
• Yet the way the songs are learned, by trying to imitate a recording or a teacher, is pretty much the same.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2022
• Davy was on the app, too, spurring on those brave enough to imitate her ambitious style.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 17 Nov. 2021
• But the same thing happens — life imitates art and vice versa.
  — Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• And then the Alzheimer’s story — talk about art imitating life.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 29 Mar. 2023
• As the coaches sat on a bench, with iPads in hand, Ohtani grabbed his bat and imitated his batting stance.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• Half of all writers, per the old joke, try to imitate Hemingway, while the other half try not to.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• Many hangers-on were so hip that the famous artists imitated them, not the other way around.
  — Ian Penman, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Made from tiny bird bones, the instruments were likely designed to imitate the calls of birds of prey.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• Munn shares that the motion is a fidget of Mulaney's that Malcolm has learned to imitate.
  — Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
• Satin doesn't have to be made of silk fibers and is often made of synthetic fibers like polyester instead, which imitate the feel of silk.
  — Amanda Constantine, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2022
• For the ultimate in R&R-style slumber, crack a window to imitate a gusty sea breeze.
  — Laura Lajiness, Vogue, 18 June 2021
• Without the ability for users to freely imitate the dances, those moves wouldn’t go viral.
  — Jill Vasbinder, Quartz, 26 July 2021
• Tony the Tiger is showing off his custom, tiger fur Nikes, his face painted to imitate the team mascot.
  — Sarah Michels, cincinnati.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• Some bird people get into birds’ songs and work hard to describe and imitate them.
  — Brian Duff, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• At the core of every pro ballplayer is a kid who developed a love for the game imitating his idols in the backyard.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
• Scammers will also often imitate someone in authority, such as a tax or debt collector.
  — Adriana Morga, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024