Sentence examples for emulate someone from inspiring English sources

"You try to emulate someone who you respect.

You might also try to emulate someone who is comfortable with conflict.

BOOKS review of "Hannibal" (Delacorte; $27.95) by Thomas Harris... Harris is clear about the danger posed by the human need to emulate someone or have someone emulate you.

If Rasner were to last in baseball — and he had no doubts he would — he understood he would have to emulate someone else.

McCutchen said he grew up rooting for Ken Griffey Jr., who was the A.L. M.V.P. in 1997, when McCutchen was 10. "He's someone I wanted to emulate, someone I wanted to be like," McCutchen said Thursday.

By Tad Friend The New Yorker, July 5, 1999 P. 81 BOOKS review of "Hannibal" (Delacorte; $27.95) by Thomas Harris... Harris is clear about the danger posed by the human need to emulate someone or have someone emulate you.

Sometimes you realise that you're emulating someone too much.

Rather than find my own tastes, my own pleasures, I tortured myself by slavishly emulating someone else's idea of a good time.

Just as any golfer can stand in balance and learn a proper body alignment from emulating someone like Tiger Woods, it can be done in skiing, too.

"On the Road" is as self-consciously a work of literature as "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu" — and Proust was a writer whom both Kerouac and Cassady emulated, someone who turned his life into literature.

The two are of course very close for performers who empathize with all the characters in their songs and whose most conspicuous moments of self-parody occur when they're emulating someone whose musical style they'd like to master.