Example Sentences

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Within just a few years, other cell-phone manufacturers were imitating its design and putting smartphones, and thus internet access, in the pockets of users around the world.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

“So we were thinking that maybe doing a live show in the studio was the wrong idea, because we were imitating broadcast radio, but we have so much more opportunity to try something totally new.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2016

But he isn't convinced from the small number of recordings that the researchers obtained that the dolphins were imitating whales.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 20, 2012

You could hear in those voices what these women had listened to all their lives and what sounds and recordings and personalities they had absorbed and were imitating and reacting against.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2011

Of course, it was Mrs. Clarke they were imitating, for how would the children know anything about bullfights and matadors?

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood