Example Sentences

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And even though she couldn’t afford the best fashions, she would then go to the fabric stores and buy patterns that were emulating the high fashion of the time.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2023

You write in your book that you were emulating Tina Turner when you recorded “Danger Zone.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022

Iannucci continued his praise for British programming by saying the global success of American TV shows had come about because they were emulating British television.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2015

These men were emulating a class of outlaws to be found in large numbers in Italy and Sicily, and were trading upon human sympathy and levying a tax upon human friendship.

From Cast Upon the Breakers by Alger, Horatio

In the hall the ladies and gentlemen were in the full enjoyment of the dance, and in the kitchen all the tenantry and the servants were emulating their superiors.

From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Rhys, Ernest