emulative
- a word derived from emulate.
Example Sentences
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Then came the Erie Canal and the frenzied funding of emulative projects, many of which failed, but the successes redeemed the rest.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2016
His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1879 came "Dramatic Idylls," with the stirring ballad of "Herv� Riel," which, as some think, roused the Laureate to emulative effort.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
She was too self-centred, and, if the truth were told, too emulative.
From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Brett, Harold M.
School to him was such a delight, that in a spirit of emulative self-denial, he never started from home, a block away, until a minute before the tardy bell rang.
From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph
