Example Sentences

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“I was copying what her lips were doing and her face was doing, and then her nose touched my nose, and it went, Bzzzt!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

I considered changing it to something else because I didn’t want to look like I was copying him, but I had almost finished it when Angelina Jolie was cast.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

Thumping a tennis ball against the garage door at the age of one, which his mother says happened because he was copying his brother, was the first sign that Draper possessed the talent.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024

But in another sign of the limits to cooperation, Russia suspended sales after 2004 due to complaints Beijing was copying its missile and other technology.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2023

She told me she had put those blue streaks in her hair and now everybody at school was copying her.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor