Example Sentences

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Dozens of other churches in the area have imitatively organized their own small study groups.

From Time Magazine Archive

In vampiring Vida Monte it was who led; others imitatively followed.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

The old Wolf crouched a little but sniffed hard with swinging nose; the young Wolf imitatively did the same.

From Animal Heroes by Seton, Ernest Thompson

The opening stanza is a dedicatory address on English models to a lawyer friend and patron; it is pure English in language, stiff and imitatively “literary” in style.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

And yet perchance your forest apes would shrink From Smoke-room chat of apes who never think, But cackle imitatively all round, Till their speech hath an automatic sound.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 by Various