Example Sentences

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As for whether he was mimicking someone urinating, Mr Van Quickenborne - widely known as "Quickie" in Belgium - said he was in fact performing an "air guitar solo".

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2023

Robinson was mimicking a Kenyan player he saw while playing for Everton's youth team as a teenager in Africa.

From Fox News • Jan. 28, 2022

“I often was mimicking caricatures, not believable realistic personalities.”

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2018

By the time she was 3, she was mimicking his singing, says her mother, with Shemekia standing behind the couch of their Harlem apartment while Johnny Copeland composed and practiced songs.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2017

She was mimicking what she’d seen the gardeners do — after all, she’d spent more of her life with humans than with bonobos.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer