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.
• 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
• At the end of his tune, Mayer lets out a loud noise, meant to imitate a donkey call.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Chest compressions are meant to imitate the heart's function of pushing blood to organs of the body.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• In the clip, Cannon and Monroe wrap themselves in blankets, spin around and imitate singing Carey's iconic high note.
  — Ellie Beeck, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2023
• So we’re left with a question: Is art imitating life or shaping it?
  — Les Borsai, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2023
• The machines can't imitate a real human—at least not yet.
  — Lisa Montenegro, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• But the speed with which Holywood life imitated Black Mirror art was lightning quick this time.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2023
• Furby’s eyes move up and down in a way meant to imitate an infant’s eye movements while scanning a parent’s face.
  — Patrick House, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
• There are paddle shifters behind the steering wheel, and the CVT tries its best to imitate an eight-speed automatic.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2023
• At 13 weeks, babies can start to imitate sounds, babble in baby talk, and are beginning to use their hands more.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 8 Sep. 2023
• The amber-colored Reverse was said to imitate a squid fleeing from a hungry striper along the surface.
  — Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
• The high-stakes matchup is the latest manifestation of what seems to be a broader U.S. push to imitate—and then surpass—the Netherlands.
  — Almar Latour, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• The goal of the research is the development of drugs that would imitate what the centenarians’ genes do to protect their health.
  — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• About 30 of the parrots at the wildlife park make noises that sound like trucks reversing, while others imitate microwaves.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
• Many Black artists of the ‘60s wrote her off as imitating white literature.
  — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• As a kid, part of my repertoire was not imitating people but writing a jingle about them.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
• The turtle is visible just beyond the duck, its shell imitating the nearby mess of lily pads.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 13 July 2023
• Take for instance the composition of the subdials that imitate the typical headlights on the front side of the G-Class.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2023
• Game Day Grass Add green food coloring to coconut flakes to imitate a football field.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2023
• Muller came to see him one day, Leahy said, leaning forward to imitate the Long Islander’s famously in-your-face style.
  — George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
• Roller rinks have a long history of doing just that, dating back to the mid 1700s, when stage actors tried imitating ice skating as part of a skit.
  — Amanda Alcántara, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2023
• But Ecuador's government has blamed the recent surge in prison violence on the president's plan to imitate him, said Al Jazeera.
  — Harriet Marsden, theweek, 10 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024