have been imitating
- present perfect progressive of imitate.
Example Sentences
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But Migos have made it their trademark and, more important, a seemingly inexhaustible rhythmic resource — for them and for the countless rappers who have been imitating them since “Versace.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2017
British pop singers have been imitating American pronunciations since Cliff Richards, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones began recording in the 1960s.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2012
It follows therefore that he did not write this sonnet as an academic exercise, had he done so he would not have been imitating Shakespeare.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel
What Wellington did, the Italians under Cadorna have been imitating in their own peninsula, and their service to their allies has thus been very considerable.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
The Serbs of Croatia have been imitating, nay exaggerating, the emphatic manners of their countrymen in the old kingdom.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry