imitative

Example Sentences

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That was great advice because it was a book that I’d written very much out of imitative aspiration, imitating Joyce and Hemingway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

The research also details potential breakthroughs in specific areas, including pump-jet propulsion and internal quieting devices, based on "imitative innovation" of Russian technology.

From Reuters • Oct. 9, 2023

But those efforts, like so many film adaptations before them, distill essentially only the basic ingredients of their stage sources — plot, character, music — and as a result feel more imitative than transformative.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022

The film moved beyond the character’s imitative “MacGyver” origins and made him more of a one-man army in the style of 1980s action protagonists like Rambo and John McClane.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021

I knew it must have been a trick she had taught him, or imitative rodent behavior.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli