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

Their daily life is not in the same degree a course of habituation to the emulative and invidious motives and maneuvers of the pecuniary side of industry.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

So there are "boys' brigades," and other organizations, under clerical sanction, acting to develop the emulative proclivity and the sense of status in the youthful members of the congregation.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

Schlegel urged that the new style must be emulative and aspiring, ever possessed of lofty ideas.

From Overbeck by Atkinson, J. Beavington