imitate - use in sentences

Object

  • gesture: The studies often involve giving them a task, or asking them to imitate a gesture.
  • behavior: How to imitate the behavior of buttons in a Selection Box?
  • sound: Use a diver duck call to imitate the sounds of these species.
  • art: Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?
  • behavior: We will continue to imitate the behavior of the operating system windows.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

  • such: The erhu sounds similar to human voice, and can imitate many natural sounds such as birds and horse.

Modifying Another Word

  • often: Often imitated, never bettered - The Birthday Party.
  • successfully: All stages can be imitated successfully by the fly dresser.
  • merely: Sun Spa produces its own branded products to its own high quality designs using its own team of designers - others merely imitate.
  • closely: The hypocritical prayer closely imitates the conduct of real prayers.

Used with why or when

  • what: Why should we imitate what a Prophet did more than a thousand years ago?
  • when: Baby will watch and in time imitate when learning has taken place.
  • which: It is humans ' ability to imitate which allows them to acquire culture in this way.

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