Sentence examples for imitation from inspiring English sources
'imitation' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to an imitation of something, often used in a negative sense to refer to something that is not genuine or to a copy, as in "The painting was an imitation Monet".
noun
The act of imitating.
At first I thought he was kidding; doing a bad imitation of an enraged, sloppy drunk.
In imitation of Tsar Peter the Great, who constructed St Petersburg in a swampy wilderness to act as a window to Europe, Putin showcased his modernizing credentials with an Olympic complex on a swampy coast and a brand new skiing resort in the mountains.
Fred West was a much lesser man, so it was just straight imitation.
And I'm a historian in large part because imitation is cheaper than invention.
Art is an endless game of copying, parody and rejection: imitation and rivalry.
The centre's commercial palaces were designed in conscious imitation of medieval Venice and Florence.
With her blonde hair styled in ringlets in imitation of the silent film star Mary Pickford, she was signed by Educational Pictures to appear in a series of one-reelers called Baby Burlesks, imitating films by Marlene Dietrich and other stars.
They say imitation is a form of flattery – but the Fondation Le Corbusier doesn't see it that way.
Ignoring previews, Theory is running 9% ahead of Imitation at the same stage of its run.
And I am still uneasy about the outright inventions in The Imitation Game, particularly its fantasy about Turing's supposed connection with the "fifth man" John Cairncross.
Sections of the British media have presented this year's best-actor race as a battle between Theory's Eddie Redmayne and The Imitation Game's Benedict Cumberbatch.
