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

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

He was badly burned in accomplishing this delicate jest, but minded the smart no more then he did the admiring cheers of his maudlin but emulative mates.

From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by White, Stewart Edward

So far as regards the serviceability of the individual for the purposes of the collective life, emulative efficiency is of use only indirectly if at all.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein