The phrase "mimic the shape" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to imitate or copy the form or outline of something. Example: The artist spent hours trying to mimic the shape of the flower petals in her painting. Example: The building's modern design mimics the shape of a wave, making it stand out in the city skyline.
That's why the off-white carpet was cut to mimic the shape of the raised ceiling.
Unlike NASA's Mars rovers, Robonaut2 is designed to closely mimic the shape, movement, and behavior of a human.
Ms. Melka-Teichroew, 30, has had the greatest success with a line of plastic rings that mimic the shape of a gold band with a single large diamond.
The first models were sold in Japan in the 1950s, to mimic the shape and slow-cooking method of the traditional Japanese rice pot.
Later on his body seems to mimic the shape of a gun, hinting that the work has something to do with urban violence.
Other scientists are trying to make smaller molecules that mimic the shape of antibodies but would be cheaper to make and could possibly be taken orally.
These pieces may occasionally mimic the shapes of useful objects, like drinking cups, but they were never meant to be utilitarian.
Perhaps mercifully, this development makes no attempt to mimic the shapes that the Sage cuts, but edges nervously alongside, like the nerd next to the big blonde on the dancefloor.
She translated that idea to the store's street front, where she planted tall, ghostly colored cacti, giant birds of paradise and various succulents in blue and silver tones, all "floating in a sea" of black lava gravel, with planters that mimic the shapes of the display fixtures inside the store.
A major advance in this work is that Mao and his colleagues reported that they were able to "tune" these particles in three shapes, resembling rods, worms and spheres, which mimic the shapes and sizes of viral particles.
Imitating the effect of stained‐glass windows and mimicking the shape of the Grand Palais's rotunda.
