Get to know Imitate better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like copy or simulate.
Imitate meaning
To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
Using Imitate
- The main meaning on this page is: To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
- Useful related words include: copy, simulate, reproduce, resemble.
- In the example corpus, imitate often appears in combinations such as: to imitate, imitate the, that imitate.
Context around Imitate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Imitate
- In this selection, "imitate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, children, monkeys, generally, jockie, latin and men stand out and add context to how "imitate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all children imitate their parents and at best imitate certain traits. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "imitate" sits close to words such as abstraction, accomplice and ang, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with imitate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This requires brain capacity to generally imitate a model or selectively imitate the model. (14 words)
Leandre explained that the situation demonstrated that young people imitate how adults handle conflicts. (14 words)
Meta and others can, at best, imitate certain traits that make up a personality. (14 words)
Rabbie also used to nag the pet dog Jockie had at the time, telling it to lie in its basket or fetch its ball, and, not only could it imitate Jockie’s voice, but it could imitate his wife Martha’s as well. (43 words)
By no means does she imitate the tough, scary attitude of her brother-in-law and his thugs -- instead, she is gentle and friendly with Toru, and she gives him emotional support while caring for her niece. (37 words)
He thus wrote his speeches as "models" for his students to imitate in the same way that poets might imitate Homer or Hesiod, seeking to inspire in them a desire to attain fame through civic leadership. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Rabbie also used to nag the pet dog Jockie had at the time, telling it to lie in its basket or fetch its ball, and, not only could it imitate Jockie’s voice, but it could imitate his wife Martha’s as well.
All children imitate their parents – popping out her lower lip and holding her thinking pen, she would imitate me and scribble on a piece of paper.
Dante famously denigrated the Sardinians for the conservativeness of their speech, remarking that they imitate Latin "like monkeys imitate men".
He thus wrote his speeches as "models" for his students to imitate in the same way that poets might imitate Homer or Hesiod, seeking to inspire in them a desire to attain fame through civic leadership.
Painter, 374–376 The Elder closes this section with an entreaty to Gaius: "Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good.
This requires brain capacity to generally imitate a model or selectively imitate the model.
A fundamental Jewish obligation, expressed several times in our scriptures, is to imitate a just and moral God.
An 1848 illustration showing the royal family next to the tree caused a sensation and caused many Britons to imitate the custom.
By no means does she imitate the tough, scary attitude of her brother-in-law and his thugs -- instead, she is gentle and friendly with Toru, and she gives him emotional support while caring for her niece.
Greece has asked for others to imitate the Vatican Museums after they agreed this month to return three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon.
Harrowingly dull, Daddy’s sermons ambitiously tried to imitate the cadence and pattern of great preachers, but he would lapse into a droning voice halfway through.
He urged Yusuf to imitate Kwankwaso’s “massive reforms, development and provision of infrastructure, agriculture, education, transportation, health, housing, security, sports, wealth creation and social amenities”.
I imagine it was hard for him to do so without laughing as he’d just watched a grown woman imitate a fainting goat 30 feet in the air.
In the early twentieth century, asbestos was often used to imitate real snow on film sets because it was waterproof, fireproof, didn't melt and was easy to handle.
In the video, which was uploaded on Thursday evening, North has seemingly utilized her special effects makeup skills to imitate her famous dad.
It’s far removed from Leonel Power’s musical language and the beginning, in which the voices imitate each other, was revolutionary at the time.
It’s never a good thing to imitate cinema that comes from other places, especially not from the United States.
Just as Chris explained, the ‘Legend of Luke Kelly’ makes ‘no attempt to imitate Luke’.
Leandre explained that the situation demonstrated that young people imitate how adults handle conflicts.
Meta and others can, at best, imitate certain traits that make up a personality.
Common combinations with imitate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: