imitate
verb (used with object)
to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example.
is imitating
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present progressiveof imitate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But she resents the fact that she has to do it because of how she is being depicted and how art is imitating life.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024
“Life is imitating art; art imitating life,” Thompson said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
As well as the chaffinch’s call, there’s a curious tap-tap-tapping; beyond, a bird with a sore throat is imitating a donkey; then there’s a hoot, a laugh and a furious chattering argument.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2019
In “The Right Stuff,” Tom Wolfe makes the case that nearly every pilot in America, whether knowing it or not, is imitating Chuck Yeager, the test pilot who broke the speed of sound.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2018
In one or two he is imitating Turner, but it is to have "confusion worse confounded."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
