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How to use mimicry in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Mimicry means an act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance, characteristics, or behavior of someone or something else. Example: “They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me.”

Examples of mimicry by meaning

nounAn act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance, characteristics, or behavior of someone or something else.

  • They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me.
  • When animal mimicry goes really wrong they don't just look like something that a predator would ignore, they look like lunch.

More sentences with mimicry

  • What is known as mimicry in the animal kingdom is, of course, one phase of homœomorphy.1901, Sydney Savory Buckman, Homœomorphy among Jurassic Brachiopoda, page 232. From the entry homœomorphy
  • Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 103. From the entry chinaman
  • Obliterative coloration aims to make animals invisible, while mimicry is deceptive visibility aiming to make the animal appear as something else.2011, Matthew Brower, Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography, page 230. From the entry obliterative coloration
  • The butterfly mimicry cluster is a good example.1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 41. From the entry cistron
  • As illustrations he provides sports for agon, lotteries for alea, hero-worship for mimicry, and tightrope walking for ilinx.1969 -, Roscoe Conkling Brown, Bryant J. Cratty, New perspectives of man in action, page 183. From the entry ilinx
  • 'Listen to th' birdies,' said the child, raising her radiant face to the roof, and at the supreme moment accompanying them in perfect mimicry.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry birdie
  • Pirate spiders (Family Mimetidae) use aggressive mimicry in their capture of spiders, by producing vibratory stimuli on webs, thereby inducing a predatory response of the resident.1990, George W. Uetz, “Chapter 4: Prey Selection in Web-Building Spiders and Evolution of Prey Defenses”, in David L. Evans, Justin O.…. From the entry pirate spider
  • His mimicry of gay speech and facial expressions is analogous to an Amos 'n' Andy routine, in which white men buffooned their way through incredibly demeaning impersonations of black men.1988 January 22, Henry Sheehan, “Little Boy Blue”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry buffoon

Meaning of mimicry

  1. noun An act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance, characteristics, or behavior of someone or something else.

Full definition of mimicry

Questions about mimicry in a sentence

How do you use mimicry in a sentence?
Mimicry is used as a noun. For example: “They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me.”
What is a short sentence with mimicry?
“The butterfly mimicry cluster is a good example.”
What does mimicry mean?
Mimicry means an act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance, characteristics, or behavior of someone or something else.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mimicry (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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