How to Use mimicry in a Sentence

mimicry

noun

• But mimicry might be the key to its survival, even without the fangs.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
• Only a few in the periphery, such as Japan, got the mimicry right.
  — Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
• The study was the first to find acoustic mimicry between a mammal and an insect.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022
• More than mimicry, Nas X finds a way to bend the sounds of contemporary rap to his will.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• But some critters might use vocal mimicry to save their skins.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022
• The problem with her performance lies in the constricting mimicry she’s been asked to do.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
• The area that has been a key development point has been movement mimicry.
  — Josh Wilson, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• But the bird dung spiders’ mimicry serves yet another role.
  — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• But some birds do seem to deploy mimicry for personal gain.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2022
• There are so many other paths to explore beyond mere mimicry.
  — Cade Metz, The Seattle Times, 16 Aug. 2017
• The reliever’s mimicry last month, Muncy said, didn’t motivate the lineup in any way.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• Theron’s portrayal of Kelly is a sleek bit of pitch-perfect mimicry.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Dec. 2019
• He was known for his flair on the campaign trail, his talent for mimicry, his love of a good party, and his personal style.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 29 June 2018
• Parrots and several bird species, of course, are masters of mimicry.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2018
• From the opening shot of Ophelia adrift in a river, in mimicry of Millais’s famous painting, the film seems to splash around in search of a suitable style.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 June 2019
• But for thousands of artists joining the Glaze queue, the long-term future looks so bleak that any promise of protections against mimicry seems worth the wait.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 4 July 2024
• World Cup stadiums and local bars around the globe are filled with this internal mimicry right now.
  — Annie-B Parson, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
• In all, the mimicry accounted for 20 percent of all the variance in the subjects' perception of the agent and its Ashcroftian message.
  — Kevin Poulsen, WIRED, 31 May 2005
• It's also commonly held that young kids are the world's best copycats, and this is where a lifelong path of parental mimicry begins.
  — Elly Parsons, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2024
• To start, humans learn languages through vocal mimicry.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• Bolas spiders, named for the South American weapon made of cord and weights, specialize in mimicry.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017
• Either way, the study adds to the scant overall knowledge of defenses against mimicry and brood parasitism.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• Through mimicry, the readers started converging on a new set of values, new patterns of language, and a new way of viewing the world.
  — WIRED, 16 June 2023
• Michael Caine has one of the most distinctive voices in the film industry, to the point where anyone worth their salt in mimicry has to have an impression of him in the bag.
  — Yohana Desta, vanityfair.com, 25 July 2017
• Flower flies, also known as syrphid flies, are one group using such mimicry.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2023
• Not that the Trump mimicry has earned DeSantis the former president's favor.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• The imitation of a harmful species by a harmless one has since become known as Batesian mimicry.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Evolution, of course, has honed their mimicry skills ruthlessly.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2021
• The hearing also barely touched on Facebook’s attempt to buy Snapchat, or its subsequent mimicry of the app’s core features.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
• The immediate pleasure of Dunbar is in St. Aubyn’s mimicry of Shakespeare’s gift for banter.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024