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• The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.From the entry pale
• His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.From the entry copy
• Sympathetic magic is based on imitation or correspondence.From the entry sympathetic
• He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.From the entry pass off as
• In contrast to cosplay’s imitation of life, DisneyBounding offers a unique kind of illusion of life.2022, Dori S. Koehler, “I Am Disney Bound: Costuming as Psycho-Spiritual Practice”, in Priscilla Hobbs, editor, Interpreting and…. From the entry DisneyBounding
• Millennials are gobbling down plant-based burgers, prompting meat producers to question the health benefits of “ultra-processed imitations.”2019 December 3, Anahad O’Connor, “Fake Meat vs. Real Meat”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry gobble down
• A small group decide to strike their colors, in imitation of three of the larger German ships.2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 26:02 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original…. From the entry break
• Now let’s see what Maimonides’ doctrine excludes from the imitation of God.2017, Jerome Gellman, “Gender and Mystical Experience of God”, in Mystical Experience of God: A Philosophical Inquiry (Ashgate Philosophy…. From the entry vengefully
• He did an imitation of Big Jerry in full-choke cantankerousness: 'You'll just fug it up.'2013, Jonathan Miles, Want Not, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry fug
• He did an imitation of a pirate: "Arr, Arr, Arr, me buckos."2007, Howard [A.] Norman, Devotion, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry arr
• Half arrowheads are indicative of difference and are used in a zygonic context to show approximate imitation.2006, Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus, Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music, page 143. From the entry zygonic
• "He thinks he is Ahhnold." Everyone laughed at Anton's imitation of Arnold Schwarzenegger.2003, Mary Pipher, The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community, page 182. From the entry Ahhnold
• The real body can only ever be an imperfect, failed imitation of the higher supermannish archetype.2002, Esther Leslie, Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde, Verso, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry supermannish
• Passion, providence, and imitation are conventionally the respective ruling forces of these three processes.1998 spring, José María Rodríguez García, “Epos delendum est: The Subject of Carthage in Garcilaso’s ‘A Boscán desde “La Goleta”’”, in…. From the entry arbitrariness
• To many Dutch people, the Anglo-American Santa is a pale imitation of the authentic Sinterklaas.1992 December 20, Andrew Kelly, “Dutch Santa, Authentic Sinterklaas, Faces Challenge From Anglo-Saxon Interloper”, in Los Angeles Times…. From the entry Sinterklaas
• The brilliant polychoric canzona has contrasting sections of imitation and homophony; this evolved into the Baroque sonata.1988, Harold Gleason, Warren Becker, Catherine Gleason, Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, page 142. From the entry polychoric
• The most startlingly dreadful was imitation mozzarella by Universal Foods Corp. of Madison, Wis.1977 February 3, Mimi Sheraton, “Fake Cheeses Rate ‘Yucks’”, in The Tennessean, volume 71, number 301, Nashville, Tenn., page 68, column 1. From the entry mealful
• One of the most interesting areas of flavor formulation is the imitation of fruital aromas.1975, Thomas E. Furia, Nicolo Bellanca, editors, Fenaroli’s Handbook of Flavor Ingredients: Adapted from the Italian Language Works of…. From the entry fruital
• To this phase belong imitations of sound and sound-metaphors of the different onomatopoietical types.1968, Joseph Strelka, Yearbook of Comparative Criticism - Volume 1, page 86. From the entry onomatopoietical
• Why monkey with weak imitations when you can come so close to the original."[1920], Peter B[ernhard] Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp Clark Co., →OCLC, page 202. From the entry spavin
• Trumpy Republicans want the real thing, not an imitation.2023 August 16, Jonathan Rauch, “Why Not Pence?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry Trumpy
• So how do you win the imitation game?2011 March 18, David Leavitt, “I Took the Turing Test”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry confederate
• Imitations of topophilic environments can also provide psychological health benefits.2011, Oladele Ogunseitan, Paul Robbins, editors, Green Health: An A-to-Z Guide, SAGE, →ISBN, page 469. From the entry topophilic
• However, some evidence exists on spatial memory in both wild and captive apes and on delayed imitation in rehabilitant apes.2007, Joanna Blake, Routes to Child Language: Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors, →ISBN. From the entry rehabilitant
• Labor of mind facilitly may be evaded by imitation: for, so, sollicitude of mind conducive to invention becomes supervacuous.2004, Frederick William Rolfe, Don Renato: An Ideal Content, Kessinger Publishing, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry supervacuous
• In order for a model to become an effective object of imitation, an optimum balance of distance and proximity is vital.1971, Reuven Feuerstein, David Krasilowsky, “The Treatment Group Technique”, in Martin Wolins, Meir Gottesmann, editors, Group Care: An…. From the entry enticive
• But a very good imitation, I must admit."1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling. From the entry manicurist
• "Reggie?" she said, suspending the farmyard imitations for a moment.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry farmyard
• He had thought his imitation of good appetite was successful.1957, James Agee, chapter 2, in A Death in the Family, New York, N.Y.: McDowell, Obolensky, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 34. From the entry mnh
• "Thonchoo worry, preence', she lisped in her imitation French accent." He weel thrink buth only from the handh of lettle Lucy.1955, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Inqilab, page 177. From the entry thrink
• Not satisfied with the cheironomia, every nation mentioned above invented written signs independently which were imitations of the hand-marks.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 67. From the entry cheironomia
• In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole.1923, Henry Robinson Luce, Briton Hadden, editors, Time. From the entry Model T
• It is thus seen that all imitation is of the reflex type, and fundamentally all imitation is autoimitation.1923, Frederick Elmer Bolton, Everyday Psychology for Teachers, page 218. From the entry autoimitation
• Artifice and imitation reveal the finikin or uncertain soul as surely as deliberate bareness reveals a conscious austerity.1913, Henry W. Nevinson, Essays in Rebellion. From the entry finikin
• These may be clumsy imitations of the old Chinese coinage, cast by the half-civilized tribes on the border.1912, Robert Coventry Forsyth, editor, Shantung the Sacred Province of China, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC…. From the entry Chungshan
• 'Log by log, with only my own two bare hands, without the help of another living soul,'” she said in her best Gruncle imitation.2023 May 23, Erik Jon Slangerup, Molly and the Machine, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 152. From the entry gruncle
• They test the possibilities of collage, frottage, grattage, different methods of painting and printing, but also wordplay—and the mutual imitation and intersection ofthese devices.2013, Ralph Ubl, Prehistoric Future: Max Ernst and the Return of Painting between the Wars. From the entry grattage

Meaning of imitation

1. noun The act of imitating.
2. noun A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.

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Questions about imitation in a sentence

How do you use imitation in a sentence?

Imitation is used as a noun. For example: “The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.”

What is a short sentence with imitation?

“a pale imitation”

What does imitation mean?

Imitation means the act of imitating.