Sentence examples for a close imitation from inspiring English sources

In design and intention, the +1 button is a close imitation of Facebook's Like button, which appears both on Facebook's site and on pages across the Web as a way for users to share content with friends with a single click.

Actually, it does, or a close imitation called 4Motion that works almost exactly the same way.

On the road, the Cobalt SSSC is a close imitation of the much more expensive BMW 3 Series (if, that is, the 3 Series cost $20K and came with front-wheel drive) that we've experienced.

With regard to the definition of plagiarism, the three most popular answers (in terms of descending popularity) given by students were: "Copy and paste, without acknowledgement of the source you took your material from" (N = 37); "Plagiarism is a close imitation or form of cheating" (N = 16) and "The uses of work/research of others without citation, thus making it appear as your own work" (N = 9).

I have tried a Casio keyboard (the CPS-300) that provides a closer imitation of a piano's possibilities, but even the most sophisticated of electronic pianos is hard put to match the supple expressiveness of its acoustic ancestor.

In the second half of the program, Mr. Rosenberg ripped through Reinhardt and Grappelli's "Minor Swing" with the violinist Mark O'Connor, who demonstrated in passing that he could do a pretty close imitation of Grappelli, but for the most part kept it in check.

In such close imitation of a dressmaker's dummy, the mannequin draws attention to the creation, rather than the wearing, of the clothes.

Full of gently lapping lines, close imitation and moments of honeyed homophony, all underpinned by tactful percussion, it is startlingly different from the driving, hard edges of much of Lang's work with the Bang On a Can collective.

In later odes, particularly The Progress of Poesy (1757), Gray successfully sought close imitation of the original Pindaric form, even emulating Greek rhythms in English, while developing ambitious ideas about cultural continuity and renewal.

No surprise that the criteria set for pathological gambling is modeled in close imitation to the criteria for substance dependence.

Thus plagiarism not only includes the word-for-word copying of another piece of work, but close imitation of it also.