Sentence examples for poor impersonation from inspiring English sources

Sugar-coated reggae, r'n'b and soft rock accompany Hilton's sickly vocals, a poor impersonation of Gwen Stefani's style.

Before the call to the nursing staff was put through, the D.J.'s laughed on the air about Ms. Greig's poor impersonation of the queen and expressed surprise about how easy it had been for them to be taken seriously.

Ms. Madison may be quite talented in her own right; unfortunately we will not know as long as she is encouraged to do a poor impersonation of Tina Turner.

The course of their love hits a few bumps, including Mr. Grant's poor impersonation of a reporter from Horse and Hound magazine and the infuriating indiscretion of William's strange flatmate (Rhys Ifans).

My safari lodge for four nights was the Grand Summit, a 350-room sprawl of dark wood, open fires and chintzy restaurants that was doing a poor impersonation of a traditional wood cabin, channelling that soap opera-set phoniness common to most big, modern American hotels.

While attempting to cross the border, German officers find out that Mort is Jewish (while doing a poor impersonation of a Catholic priest), resulting in their being chased by the Nazis.

As far as silly misnomers go, "Herbstmeisterschaft" (autumn championship) is on a par with Bild's "Pop-Titan Dieter Bohlen" (Modern Talking's slightly less effeminate member does a poor Simon Cowell impersonation on the German X-Factor) and "Hoth", the snow-monster infested, Tauntaun-killing ice planet from The Empire Strikes Back.

Critics noted the lack of depth given that it was a port of an arcade game, some difficulties with the destination arrow, and the poor "Wolfman Jack" impersonation of the in-game announcer.

Before becoming a parent, I never realized I could ruin someone's day by doing a piss-poor firetruck impersonation.

IRS scams are so prevalent they topped the Better Business Bureau's top scams of 2015 by a mile -- and that was well before the IRS itself issued a warning to taxpayers saying there has been a "summer surge" this year in IRS impersonation scams, with a new variant asking poor, unsuspecting taxpayers to fork over payment on iTunes gift cards.

Indeed, as Ms. Palin began to suffer a variety of wounds — poor interview performances with Charlie Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, a brutal impersonation by Tina Fey on "Saturday Night Live" — they kept their distance and let it play out.