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How to use imitator in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Imitator means a person who imitates or apes another. Example: “Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.”

Examples of imitator by meaning

nounA person who imitates or apes another.

  • Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.2021 October 22, Brian Lowry, “TV OT: The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming! Plus: ‘Curb’ and ‘Insecure’ return”, in CNN
  • Among the first to announce its migration in early 2019 was BitChute, a YouTube imitator that had been blocked by PayPal.2021 December 9, Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, “Epik is a refuge for the deplatformed far right. Here’s why its CEO...

More sentences with imitator

  • Necessarily a poor imitator of Sherlock Holmes, I said, ‘If I’m not mistaken, you’re not only rich but rolling in affluence.1987, Diganta Rāẏa, Untold Stories of Shop-Lifters, New Delhi: National Publishing House, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry Conan Doylean
  • If the object is too far removed from the imitator, he will not become sensitive to and perceptive of it.1971, Reuven Feuerstein, David Krasilowsky, “The Treatment Group Technique”, in Martin Wolins, Meir Gottesmann, editors, Group Care: An…. From the entry enticive
  • In him you simply have nature's top-notch imitator.1930 Nov, Hubbard Nye, “Playing Nursemaid to a Chimpanzee”, in Boys' Life, retrieved 20 Nov 2013, page 67. From the entry superliminal
  • Its symptoms come and go and can look like a lot of other ailments, leading doctors to dub it “the great imitator.”2024 April 26, Brenda Goodman, “Doctors seeing more syphilis patients with unusual and severe symptoms, study shows”, in CNN. From the entry great imitator
  • Steerpike can be understood as an imitator of his former kitchen master Swelter, his slim swordstick a thin copy of Swelter's cleaver.2005, Alice Mills, Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake, page 82. From the entry swordstick
  • But his real genius lay in the devising of many entirely new types of crossword, some of which have found enthusiastic imitators .1954, The Listener. From the entry word ladder
  • Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant.1995, John C. Leggett, Suzanne Malm, The Eighteen Stages of Love, page 9. From the entry pant
  • Unless the work of a skilled imitator, Pillement also executed an oil painting in monochromatic shades of olive green, called “Verdaille”, featuring a smaller procession of figures riding on elephants.2006, Maria Gordon-Smith, Pillement, page 51. From the entry verdaille

Meaning of imitator

  1. noun A person who imitates or apes another.

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Questions about imitator in a sentence

How do you use imitator in a sentence?
Imitator is used as a noun. For example: “Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.”
What is a short sentence with imitator?
“In him you simply have nature's top-notch imitator.”
What does imitator mean?
Imitator means a person who imitates or apes another.

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