Example Sentences

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It’s not the first time Meta has aped a competitor’s innovation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2022

Earl has aped his brother with the beetle-browed assiduousness of a vaudeville baboon learning to roller-skate; he rubs himself with the legend of Huey's greatness like a voodoo worshiper using "Fast Dice Oil."

From Time Magazine Archive

London is a modern Babylon; Paris has aped imperial Rome, and may share its catastrophe.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

There must be poverty-stricken folk indeed, for I saw that the houses showed no sign whatever of the ugliness that the Marquesan has aped from the whites.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick