Example Sentences

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The characters in that film didn’t experience the world they were aping, which is probably why they adored it so much.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2022

She regarded with horror the possibility that she might be imitating others or that others were aping her.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2016

Without having seen the fight, the Americans were aping the action of that one nameless flyer who had charged the aero-sub that had been destroyed.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Bates, Harry