Sentence examples for copied after from inspiring English sources

A church that in the 11th century must have looked exotic as well as old-fashioned, St. Mark's was copied after the venerable Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople, an early Byzantine, many-domed type that had long since gone out of favour.

Frederic Leighton's stupendous "Athlete Wrestling a Python" is one of several works directly inspired by the Parthenon frieze removed from Athens by Lord Elgin and endlessly copied after it was put on display in London in 1817.The largest gallery mimics the Great Exhibition of 1851 with an array of showpieces meant to amaze and project power.

The entrance to the hotel is copied after the Gate of all Nations at Persepolis, flanked by two soldiers followed by two creatures that have the body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, the legs of a bull and the head of a human.

Author Mark Twain wrote that 'Heaven was copied after Mauritius', but there's more to this island than palmy good looks.

When American travel writer and humorist Mark Twain visited Mauritius on his round-the-world journey in 1896 he wrote that – having seen the place and talked to locals – he'd gathered 'the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then Heaven, and that Heaven was copied after Mauritius.'.

In 1896, Mark Twain quoted a local as saying "Mauritius was made first and then heaven; and heaven was copied after Mauritius".

Find something cute that people will copy after a while of wearing it.

"Everyone in the industry copied it after a while.

Everyone copied me after Survivor.

The text of the Compositiones Lucenses tradition was copied just after the transcription of De architectura by Vitruvius.

She copied one definition after another.