parrot-fashion
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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And never to repeat, parrot-fashion, anything I am told by anyone posing as a figure of authority.
From Reuters • Apr. 30, 2010
Others at once took up the cry, and the phrase w'as repeated, parrot-fashion, again and again, with an ever-growing volume of sound, until, by the seventh or eighth reiteration, no other word was being spoken.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
His job at the cathedral in Arezzo was to train the young choristers, and he’d calculated that teaching them the whole of the Church’s plainsong repertoire by ear, parrot-fashion, would take over ten years.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
His sermons are long and formal; he learns them by heart and repeats them parrot-fashion, taking care to look, not into the faces of his people, but at a certain nail in the opposite wall.
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Boreham, Frank
"Oh, it was simply marvellous!" repeated Juliette in parrot-fashion, as, standing before a mirror, she rearranged a rebellious curl.
From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile
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