How to Use impersonate in a Sentence

impersonate

verb

• He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
• The men who do this will tell you that any schmo can impersonate.
  — Christopher Spata Tampa Bay Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 17 July 2023
• This helps the platform track scams that impersonate its brand.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
• The caller had a young man get on the phone and impersonate her grandson.
  — cleveland, 1 Dec. 2021
• So don't go off topic, don't impersonate anyone, and don't get your facts wrong.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 29 June 2026
• Dewey ends up impersonating Ned, going to teach at the school in his place.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
• Which makes sense, as its odd-cylinder warble is a sound that any human could impersonate.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2021
• These are just small ways that the Ram impersonates a luxury car.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 28 Jan. 2020
• The key casting choice was the woman to impersonate her mother.
  — Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• Each builds off the other to enable a server to impersonate users and read their messages.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2022
• In April, a man received a video call from a scammer who impersonated a friend.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 26 June 2023
• Chase warns one of the biggest scams that happens year-round is scammers impersonating banks.
  — Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
• White House aides draft a down-to-earth double to impersonate the president, who has had a stroke.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Or the scammers impersonate Amazon and send a text about an order.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2022
• Each of the queens picked a celebrity to impersonate, and then tried their best to get RuPaul to laugh.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2018
• These texts generally try to impersonate the toll service in your state.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
• One night, Simo impersonates Emad in a live-stream gaming session.
  — Aziz Zoromba, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
• The remaining queens on the show pulled out all of the stops to impersonate their celebrities, with gut-busting results.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2019
• In Africa, there’s a story about a girl freed from the stomach of an ogre who impersonated her brother.
  — Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• Diaz then went to police and accused Hadley of impersonating her in the ad.
  — Alene Tchekmedyian, latimes.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The touring act doesn’t aim to impersonate their grandparents, but to honor them and their music.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
• This is where someone impersonating a member of staff from your bank calls to warn that your device has been hacked and your money is at risk.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• Allen was banned from Hinge for impersonating herself.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2025
• But the move comes as scam texts impersonating toll agencies, courts and banks are surging nationwide.
  — Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
• Be aware that scammers may try to use calls, texts, and emails to impersonate Amazon customer service.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 19 May 2022
• What is true power in fashion if not the ability to hire one of the world’s biggest celebrities to impersonate you?
  — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 29 June 2019
• But the new class of images raise many of the same concerns, including that they could be used to impersonate real women.
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• But part of the problem is the personalities the queens chose to impersonate.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
• That includes details that criminals can use to drain accounts, open loans, or impersonate you.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
• Sure would be a shame if someone paid $8 for Twitter Blue and used the checkmark to impersonate him for a day.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2022