The phrase "imitate the model" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to copy or follow someone as an example or role model. Example: In order to improve your writing skills, it is important to read and imitate the models of successful writers.
Arrigo Sacchi, the man who had masterminded Italy's 1994 win over Spain, was hired to overhaul the national youth set-up, promising he would imitate the model used at Barcelona.
In its search for perfection, man's intellect tends to imitate the model of this intellect, since it is that which makes man substantial in so far as he is man.
And that's created an opening for savvy startups looking not to imitate the model, but to innovate.
Collaborating with the monastic reformer Joseph of Volokolamsk (Russia), he convoked three synods to counter the heretical sectarians and consciously imitated the model of the 15th-century Spanish Catholic Inquisition against nonconforming Jewish, Arab, and Protestant Christians.
McLaren has long tried to imitate the Ferrari model.
"When French films try to imitate the American model, it doesn't work in America.
The IPL was set up to imitate the franchise model of American sport -- a very cosy family business.
This is particularly important for our millennial generation because we just can't afford to imitate the previous models of leadership.
While Club Zanzibar no longer exists, it is immortalized in John Parris's "Lincoln Motel Birdhouse" (2006), a scale-model birdhouse imitating the motel's brick facade, made of wood, metal, asphalt and paint.
This property of one model's ability to imitate the behavior of a second model is known as model mimicry, and the idea of using this in a model selection setting has been utilized by e. g. [ 11].
Imitate the way runway models walk.
