Example Sentences

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She said Kennedy had been imitating characters from a movie.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2022

If Jeong had been imitating the rhetoric of her harassers, we would expect most instances of it to come in direct response to trolls.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2018

Watching American Sniper, I kept wondering who Kyle himself had been imitating.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2015

Charging that the makers of Vita products had been imitating her distinctively nasal tones in radio commercials, the actress sued the herring marinaters and their advertising agency, Solow/Wexton, Inc., for $4,000,000 in damages.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Scratch poor Poll!" hoarsely suggested the bird, cocking his head to one side in just the manner she had been imitating a moment before.

From A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage by Morris, Clara