Sentence examples for knockoff version from inspiring English sources

Months before General Motors began selling its $7,500 Chevrolet Spark in China in December, a $6,000 knockoff version, the Chery QQ, with the same grinning front end but missing some subtle details (like an air bag), was cruising Chinese streets.

For decades, I accused the Nets of just being a knockoff version of the Knicks.

A gentle tap of a segmented antenna infused with a knockoff version of femme fertile perfume, and the male says, go ahead, hop aboard, eat the flirt off my back.

Two months later, the chairman of the House panel, Christopher Cox, Republican of California, wrote publicly that the Chinese had a "knockoff version of the world's most sophisticated nuclear design".

Voight then introduced Sam Moore, of the classic R. & B. duo Sam & Dave, who performed with all due respect to Moore what was essentially a knockoff version of Ray Charles's rendition of "America the Beautiful".

Rarely content with a knockoff version, she and her peers comb the malls and congregate on Madison Avenue, often with their mothers in tow, intent on bagging the latest Gucci, Versace or Helmut Lang, even if the object of their lust takes the form of a token lip gloss or cosmetic bag.

Industrial nations, they say, often seek to punish them if they buy or produce knockoff versions of the drugs.

The Middle East, he said, is "flooded" with Soviet-style small arms, often made in knockoff versions by the Chinese or Eastern Europeans, elbowing Russia out of this market.

A couple of years ago, the International Anticounterfeiting Coalition — a trade group whose members include fashion, software, pharmaceutical and other businesses concerned with knockoff versions of their products — decided to take its message to college campuses.

Teva Pharmaceutical will now have more than 500 products, and more than 200 applications pending in the U.S. to sell knockoff versions of patented drugs.

In recent years, international health groups, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), and health officials in European and African nations have sought to appropriate the patent rights to AIDS medicines, allowing generic-drug makers, such as India-based Cipla, carte blanche to flout international patent laws and produce knockoff versions of many drugs.