Sentence examples for tried to ape from inspiring English sources

Over the past half-century many people have tried to ape its success.

Javelin Strategy and Research counted at least 15 start-ups and bank services that tried to ape it in the early years of the last decade.

In his move rightwards, the good doctor has tried to ape the younger George Bush; too often, however, he has seemed more like Al Gore.

Its opponents became so transfixed by those successes that David Cameron tried to ape them by turning his party into New Tories.

But it was not until the last several years that luxury bags began to trickle down to the average consumer, as chains like Victoria's Secret, Banana Republic and Swatch tried to ape their fast-growing luxury rivals.

And if at the time of their rise in Britain you were a middle-class teenager with a fuzzy creed based on the platitudes of long-haired rock stars whose style you tried to ape, you'll know the very real fear you felt at the sight of them.

And not once does he try to ape Mr. Dylan's oft-caricatured phrasing.

Or maybe he was trying to show little beasts trying to ape people.

On the one hand, many games try to ape the cinematic scope of a big-budget screen production.

I was trying to ape the movement, but I wasn't quite pulling it off". He shakes his head, laughs.

Nigerian musicians are no longer trying to ape the lifestyle, culture and language of American urban artists.