emulative

Example Sentences

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Then came the Erie Canal and the frenzied funding of emulative projects, many of which failed, but the successes redeemed the rest.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2016

His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two categories—the emulative habit of life and the habit of devout observances—are therefore to be taken as complementary elements of the barbarian type of human nature and of its modern barbarian variants.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

Sports—hunting, angling, athletic games, and the like—afford an exercise for dexterity and for the emulative ferocity and astuteness characteristic of predatory life.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

To read of a noble deed brought swift tears to her eyes in these days of mutation, and stirred her to emulative dreams.

From A Prairie Infanta by Brodhead, Eva Wilder