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How to use emulate in a sentence

27 example sentences · verb, adjective

Emulate means to attempt to equal or be the same as. Example: “People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.”

Examples of emulate by meaning

verbTo copy or imitate, especially a person.

  • People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.
  • The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with emulate

  • She always had some star or celebrity that she was emulating.2022, Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety. From the entry iconolatry
  • Another nonconformist aesthetic, Clowncore, emulates the style of clowns, mimes, and jesters.2020, Piper Dafforn, “At the Core”, in Season, volume 3, number 1 (Don’t Put Me on Hold!), pages 4 and 7. From the entry clowncore
  • In the practice sentence, C emulates P’s model and provides another model or postilion sentence.2004, Margaret M. Leahy, “Therapy Talk: Analyzing Therapeutic Discourse”, in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in School, volume 35…. From the entry postilion sentence
  • I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.1998, Janice Lynn Ristock, Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out. From the entry erase
  • Francis, even to the point of emulating his four-cornered hood, called a cappuccio.1991, James North, A History of the Church, page 388. From the entry cappuccio
  • The stripes in the last fabric in this collection emulate jaspé.1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry jaspé
  • The farms emulate Venus's atmosphere, so as the generations of Taumoeba go by, they'll get even better at Venusian life.2021, Andy Weir, chapter 26, in Project Hail Mary, Penguin Books, page 432. From the entry Venusian
  • The first emulates the p10 shown above; the second has period 62 and a rotor of size 10.1997 November 30, David Bell, “Day & Night - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 2/5)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry rotor
  • The belief prevailed that gifted students were withdrawn, scared, rejected subjects who were more to be pitied than emulated.1964, William Kirtley Durr, The Gifted Student, page 37. From the entry gifted
  • So emulating in her wrath the famous Moll Pitcher, she marched to the front and remained with her husband.1922, J[ohn] Warren Gilbert, compiler, The Blue and Gray: A History of the Conflicts During Lee’s Invasion and Battle of Gettysburg, page…. From the entry baking-tray
  • Now humans have access to a tool that can emulate how we think and write, acting as a co-intelligence to improve (or replace) or work.2024, Ethan Mollick, Co-Intelligence, Ebury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry co-intelligence
  • While consolidating his power for a second term, Mr Xi proudly pointed to China's "flourishing" growth model as something other countries could emulate.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC. From the entry consolidate
  • They were undoubtedly the dwindling remnants of a pithecanthropoid species; they had enough intelligence to emulate their long-dead masters in working in gold.2014, Philip Jose Farmer, Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke, →ISBN. From the entry pithecanthropoid
  • There is a rich, hackerish tradition in the computer world of making any new computer or video game system emulate those that came before it.2009, Damien Stolarz, David Jurick, Adam Stolarz, William Hurley, iPhone Hacks: Pushing the iPhone and iPod Touch Beyond Their Limits. From the entry hackerish
  • This study also seeks to discover the motivation behind the desire of potential warriors to emulate the persona of traditional, idealized heroic icons.2002, Dissertation Abstracts International: The humanities and social sciences. From the entry undercode
  • He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness.1992, Domna C Stanton, Discourses of Sexuality, page 177. From the entry overgo
  • The meeting called for a provincial campaign to emulate the progressive experiences of Tsochuan county in developing its small hydroelectric power industry.1970 August 6 [1970 August 4], “Shansi Electricity Meeting”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 152, Foreign Broadcast…. From the entry Tsochuan
  • Indeed, as Prahalad remarked, Drucker had a trait that all of us, whether we're college professors or corporate managers, would do well to emulate: communicating clearly.2011, Rick Wartzman, What Would Drucker Do Now?: Solutions to Today’s Toughest Challenges, →ISBN. From the entry do well
  • As a biographer myself, I know a little something about overidentification with one’s subject, but I wish Ardizzone had picked a more appealing quality to emulate.2007 July 22, Caroline Weber, “Long Time Passing”, in New York Times. From the entry overidentification
  • Confronting the task nearly half a century later of making sense of Queensland's literary heritage, it seemed foolhardy to emulate our predecessors in their heroic single-handedness.2007, Patrick Buckridge, Belinda McKay, By the Book: A Literary History of Queensland, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry single-handedness
  • As time progressed, the Gray Line increased its limo fleet, converted the stretchouts into passenger vehicles (later widely emulated), and brought the first sightseeing buses to the Islands.2004, Robert C. Allen, Creating Hawai'i Tourism: A Memoir, page 118. From the entry stretch-out
  • I don't know what flower they affect to emulate but I dare say they are known to each other under some order or class of the Linean system.1998, Joan W. Goodwin, The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley: The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley, →ISBN. From the entry linean
  • Because how can it be defnitively proven that an enhancing in our degree of emulating was in fact caused by the conditioning from employing some type of sensory enhancing mindset.2009, Martin L. Vanderhook, A Sensory Approach to Improving Muscle Control, page 49. From the entry enhancing
  • That’s less the fault of composers than of directors, who commonly prescore their films with temporary music during editing, then frequently expect the final score to emulate that “temp track.”2007 January 7, Jon Burlingame, “Thinking in Colors and Textures, Then Writing in Music”, in New York Times. From the entry prescore
  • He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son. From the entry mother

Meaning of emulate

  1. verb To attempt to equal or be the same as.
  2. verb To copy or imitate, especially a person.
  3. verb To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.

Full definition of emulate

Questions about emulate in a sentence

How do you use emulate in a sentence?
Emulate is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.”
What is a short sentence with emulate?
“She always had some star or celebrity that she was emulating.”
What does emulate mean?
Emulate means to attempt to equal or be the same as.

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