Explore Imitates through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Imitates meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of imitate
Using Imitates
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of imitate
- In the example corpus, imitates often appears in combinations such as: life imitates, imitates the, imitates art.
Context around Imitates
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Imitates
- In this selection, "imitates" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, life, art, music, art, life and figures stand out and add context to how "imitates" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include art imitates life for and art now imitates a dystopian. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "imitates" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with imitates
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sometimes life imitates art. (4 words)
Brandon imitates the crowd noise. (5 words)
Sometimes it’s nice when life imitates art. (8 words)
They take in a baby deposited in a box outside, a brat who grows daily, who imitates the actions of his, or its, foster parents, screams like the devil, and speaks in a voice not like Linda Blair’s Regan in “The Exorcist,” but like a grown man. (48 words)
A drag king is a counterpart of the drag queen but usually for much different audiences, and is defined as a female-bodied person who adopts a masculine persona in performance or imitates a male film or pop-music star. (40 words)
Its etymology is not entirely clear, but it is believed to be an onomatopoeic word that imitates the sound produced when a solid object, usually something heavy, falls or is dropped with a dull, heavy, or hollow sound. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
File this one under life imitates art imitates life imitates… or just Google an image of a snake eating its tail.
Aristotle, Poetics I 1447a For example, music imitates with the media of rhythm and harmony, whereas dance imitates with rhythm alone, and poetry with language.
He imitates figures like William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling and T.S. Eliot.
Its etymology is not entirely clear, but it is believed to be an onomatopoeic word that imitates the sound produced when a solid object, usually something heavy, falls or is dropped with a dull, heavy, or hollow sound.
In our dystopian world post-October 7, where upending accepted notions has become the norm, Israeli art now imitates a dystopian life.
Life imitates art, and not favorably, in Josh Sticklin's uneven staging of at the Keegan Theatre.
Pasa frequently imitates using firearms in his Tik Tok videos, including one instance in which he pretends to shoot at three young women sitting across his lap.
The research team, led by Zhidao Xia, developed and patented a 3D-printed synthetic material called hydroxyapatite/aragonite (HAA) that imitates the structures and chemical composition of coral.
They often say life imitates art, but there’s no reason why it can’t be the other way around.
They take in a baby deposited in a box outside, a brat who grows daily, who imitates the actions of his, or its, foster parents, screams like the devil, and speaks in a voice not like Linda Blair’s Regan in “The Exorcist,” but like a grown man.
Brandon imitates the crowd noise.
He also talks about his college roommate, who he nicknamed “Bird,” because of the high-pitched noises he made during sex, which he imitates with hilarious accuracy.
Art imitates life for Bloomberg, and she has also cultivated a side-gig writing young adult novels that focus on the world of elite equestrians.
I think it’s one of those rare instances where life imitates art and art imitating life.
Sometimes it’s nice when life imitates art.
Sometimes life imitates art.
The early spider orchid achieves pollination by emitting a scent that imitates that of a female Buffish Mining-bee.
When it comes to Ellen Belshaw, art imitates.
A drag king is a counterpart of the drag queen but usually for much different audiences, and is defined as a female-bodied person who adopts a masculine persona in performance or imitates a male film or pop-music star.
Another KIS interface imitates the Berkeley whois command.
Common combinations with imitates
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- life imitates 8×
- imitates the 8×
- imitates art 6×
- that imitates 4×
- art imitates 3×
- imitates with 3×
- imitates life 2×
- imitates or 2×
- he imitates 2×