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

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

PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s 4 p.m. on a Thursday in July and Martell Webster is imitating Michael Jackson’s dance moves.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2015

Shakspere makes a little use of it in one, if not in more, of his plays, though it there partakes of the irregular character of that of the older plays which he is imitating.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George