How to Use mimic in a Sentence

mimic

1 of 3 noun

• In the end, the car mimics choices made by the human driver.
  — Cade Metz, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
• Then there are mimics like false Solomon's seal and false rue anemone.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
• In some ways, the story of the Eagle Creek fire mimics that of wildfires across the West.
  — Leah Sottile, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018
• Not every crook has a skilled mimic on call to ape the brushstrokes of Titian or Twombly.
  — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
• The metal base mimics rattan but keeps the lamp sure-footed.
  — Joanna Linberg, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Staters Of the coins found in Brandenburg, 19 are staters — mimics of the gold and silver coins found in ancient Greece.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
• Like Williams—and like Lawson—Vereen is a gifted mimic.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2017
• These mimics, known as biomorphs, serve as a warning, Dr. López-García said.
  — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• The zesty combination of Biscoff and fresh lime juice mimics the flavor of key lime pie.
  — Cynthia Drescher, CNN, 12 May 2017
• Wolfie would be crazy to drop his life and his creativity and his career to be his dad’s mimic.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2022
• Goff was a gifted mimic, performing in the classroom or on the street corner.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 17 Apr. 2021
• As a young gifted artist, she was betrayed by a boyfriend who used her skills as a mimic to frame her for an art robbery.
  — Jef Rouner, Houston Chronicle, 3 Dec. 2019
• Nearly half of respondents — 48 percent — said the House health-care bill, which the Senate draft mimics in many ways, was a bad idea.
  — Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post, 23 June 2017
• The glass bottle mimics the fish’s body, and the balloon represents the swim bladder inside its body.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 5 July 2018
• An array of LED lights mimics sunlight, giving the cylinder an eerie blue glow.
  — Dan Falk, NBC News, 30 May 2017
• The biomechanics of these exoskeletons are a close mimic of our own but with much more power or size.
  — Malcolm MacIver, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2010
• And Myles Frost, who plays the adult Jackson, is an astonishing mimic.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022
• For instance, the giant swallowtail caterpillar mimics bird poop–right up to the smell.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2017
• For sentada, or seat, the follower mimics leaning back in a chair.
  — Nicole Tsong, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2017
• His images suggest less the efforts of a mimic than the bliss of someone who has at last unleashed his brawling alter egos.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• Others, such as the fabled but delicate mimic, do much worse.
  — Eric Scigliano, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
• For instance, the giant swallowtail caterpillar mimics bird poop–right up to the smell.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2017
• Called Milo, the doll-like, two-foot-tall robot mimics basic emotions and tries to make eye contact with students.
  — Cade Metz, New York Times, 17 July 2019
• One player has to hunt down five others, all of which are mimics with the power to disguise themselves as random objects.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 10 June 2018
• Tinsley was a nice fellow who could give Batting Stance Guy a run for his money as a mimic of other hitters.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
• The human brain is a mimic of the irrepressible variety.
  — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2011
• Advocates for stronger gun laws said the bill that Hugo is backing is relatively weak and mimics mental health laws that are already in place.
  — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• The flower's blood red color mimics a piece of meat, further tricking the insects into pollinating the plant.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 18 Apr. 2018
• The lure may be more of a crawfish imitation than a shad mimic; the green pumpkin or brown/green/orange combo that's so popular on the TVA chain is the favored color for the tails.
  — Joe Songer, AL.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• The situation is so dire that one startup has created mimics of the mRNA vaccines in use to help researchers improve their formulations.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 30 May 2023

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mimic

2 of 3 adjective

• Lenny was funny and good at math; James was an ace mimic.
  — Sarah Braunstei, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• Many have painted their faces, some with flags, some with lines that mimic prison bars.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
• So the organizers designed the virus to be a SARS mimic.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 28 Sep. 2020
• Too many mimic divisive rhetoric to score cheap points or achieve short-term goals.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2022
• Ross cautions that the system isn’t a perfect skin mimic.
  — WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
• At the end, the powerful voice-mimic tools are easily available to the public.
  — Dominic David, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• So these drugs in a sense mimic, at least to some degree, an eating disorder.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
• The soft motions more closely mimic being in the womb, which is why a glider is great for calming your baby.
  — Ingrid Meilan and Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 10 Feb. 2023
• Will this crypto bull run mimic past ones, where there is a peak and then a fall-off that’s higher than the previous leveling off?
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 28 May 2021
• Some mimic coffee houses, with wood floors, booth seating and pendant lamps.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2021
• When in doubt, mimic Ms. Jordan and keep your outfit minimal.
  — Taylor Bryant, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• That perspective was made rather movingly clear with looks that included diaphanous lace kites, worn across the back to mimic wings.
  — Nick Remsen, CNN, 21 Jan. 2022
• The state boasts a high-desert terroir of volcanic rock and limestone soils and excellent ripening weather, which some say mimic Burgundy.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• They were even encouraged by Malone, who continued to fight for calls and mimic defensive stances on the sidelines.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2020
• Including running an after-school club in which kids mimic dances using a Wii video game console.
  — Mike Digiovanna Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• The mockingbird can sing up to 200 different tunes and mimic artificial sounds like car alarms.
  — Curt Anderson, ajc, 5 Nov. 2021
• Across the foyer, the dining room (237 square feet) boasts the same wainscoting, as well as a coffered ceiling, three windows, and a wrought-iron chandelier with lights that mimic candles.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2023
• Many of Hickerson’s photographs mimic shots from the film’s set, in which Argento looms over actresses splayed in poses of death or duress.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• These colorful lettuce wraps with shrimp mimic Vietnamese spring rolls.
  — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 30 June 2021
• Jessica, with a mimic’s gift for languages, spoke with authority and ease.
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
• More and more bralette styles are available than ever before with wire-free options that closely mimic underwire bras (without the poking and prodding, of course).
  — Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 30 Jan. 2023
• Light and temperature conditions in the coral spawning lab mimic seasons and lunar conditions in Australia, where the coral are from.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2021
• Fitbit has at least updated the operating system of the Versa and Sense to more closely mimic competitors like the Apple Watch.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• How could people, wielding tools instead of teeth, mimic nature's most talented builders?
  — Ben Goldfarb, Science | AAAS, 7 June 2018
• While other experiments use greenhouses to warm biocrusts, the heat lamps are thought to be a better, if still imperfect, mimic of global warming.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
• However, it was redesigned last year to better mimic human movement.
  — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2017
• By the end of the century, remixes could range from extended versions that mimic film scores to wacky reproductions that stray far away from the original to basic redos that simply tack on a guest verse.
  — Bianca Gracie, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2022
• The next challenge: larger, solid structures that more fully mimic organ function.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune Well, 15 Feb. 2023
• Among a series of items the company offers that mimic pasta (a ravioli spoon rest; a penne garlic peeler) are the handy Mafaldine elastic silicone bands.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
• Snake-mimic caterpillar The larvae of hawk moths ward off predators by impersonating deadly pit vipers.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019

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mimic

3 of 3 verb

• The lamp mimics natural sunlight.
• It was meant to mimic a news report from the future, from 2024.
  — CBS News, 28 May 2023
• The vaulted pitch of the arbor mimics the lines of the garage roof and makes the garage more background than feature.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2023
• The Natufians picked small wing bones from the Eurasian teal and the Eurasian coot to best mimic the sound of birds of prey native to the area.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• Now, mind you, mimicking what the structure is is one thing.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2024
• The true-roll mat surface mimics a real putting green, and the bottom of the mat has rubber to hold it in place.
  — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023
• The thick white lines on dense black backgrounds mimic Greek vase painting.
  — Barbara Schreiber, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• To mimic a marine environment, the lights are kept a dim, deep aqua blue that makes the salmon seem to glow.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Huge incumbents can mimic your ideas and maybe beat you at your own game.
  — Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Some say these are meant to mimic the teeth of a larger animal.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
• Atwood’s team rubbed oil and dirt into the leather and even used paint and paraffin spray to mimic biting snow and ice.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
• Even countries such as Sweden, which tried to resist those forces, in some ways came to mimic them.
  — Talya Zax, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
• Seeing how the program tried to mimic Black Mirror taught Brooker what not to do.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 7 June 2023
• That’s because the drugs mimic a hormone called glucagon-like peptide 1.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 14 July 2023
• The bag was true to form (though not true to size) with a golden shell-like casing and silver crystals to mimic the cream filling.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
• These bermuda-style shorts which hit a bit above the knee mimic the silhouette, but with more structure.
  — Aemilia Madden, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2023
• The lighting mimics different tones of sunsets to create stunning images on the walls of a room.
  — Taylor Gumm, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
• Surrounded by heavy theater curtains and the glare of a projector screen, the room mimicked a movie theater sans the popcorn and bags of peanut M&Ms.
  — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• This mimics the effect of Tampa’s early mixto crafters, who pressed the meat with heavy tailor’s irons to sear the sugar and produce a glaze.
  — Andrew Barrett Schrader, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024
• There is also a TV mimicking option in the Hue Labs formula list.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
• The designs are often shaped to mimic the way a bracelet would fall on the wrist, with individual dots that look like a chain of silver or gold.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 19 Dec. 2023
• In terms of design, this sponge mimics a classic teardrop shape with a slight edge for blotting certain areas of the face — say, your cheekbones with blush.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
• The shape of the chairs mimics the soft, rounded edges of the fireplace and rounded stone enclosure separating the circular patio from the rest of the lawn.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 17 May 2023
• Designed with your pup’s comfort in mind, this bed mimics the feeling of being snuggled up next to a human.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2023
• The zoo even mimicked the show by sharing a split screen of Berani and Jaya's photos and zoo staff cheering at the results, just like Povich's audience would.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Made from a polyester knit, the fabric is designed to mimic the natural look of straw, but with all the advantages of synthetic fibers.
  — Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 15 June 2023
• Start by trying to mimic the elements and amenities of your hotel stay.
  — Ronny Maye, Essence, 30 Nov. 2023
• When infused at a rate to mimic conditions after a meal, the hormone prodded the pancreas to crank out more insulin.
  — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
• Sometimes girls may not fit the criteria of autism, and girls tend to be better able to mask symptoms by mimicking friends' behaviors.
  — Michael George, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2024
• The showpiece here is the 85-foot indoor lap pool, set in an underground chamber with lighting designed to mimic daylight.
  — Stacey Wreathall, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024