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.
• The choir imitates the era’s warning sirens and coughs to convey the effects of the dust.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
• 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
• The classic style imitates a work boot, but don’t be fooled by the old-school look of the nubuck leather upper.
  — Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2020
• 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
• These aren’t the governments the U.S. should want to imitate.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Small fish, and the streamers that imitate them, are at risk of attack by edgy adults.
  — Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
• The witness pinched his fingers and dropped them down to imitate his wife putting cash in her purse.
  — Rachel Nolan, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Gleeson isn't the first in Hollywood to don a blond wig and imitate Trump's voice.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
• And then the Alzheimer’s story — talk about art imitating life.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 29 Mar. 2023
• One suggested adding a hit under each eye and along the hairline to imitate the effect of the sun.
  — Linda Wells, Town & Country, 16 Apr. 2021
• 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
• One good way to imitate that action is by skating a dry fly.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 26 June 2020
• Art is about to imitate life in the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 26 June 2020
• They’ll be annotated by Foster, in a spiky hand that some of his colleagues have learned to imitate.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
• One species—the superb fairy wren of Australasia—lures predators away from their young by making darting movements and squeaky sounds to imitate the behavior of a delectable mouse.
  — Harvey Whitehouse, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025