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How to use the word emulate in a Sentence?

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In our friendships, we often act as adversaries, and in our humanity, we sometimes emulate the ferocity of lions. Yet, we must not allow malevolence to cloud our judgment or materialism to taint our souls. Instead, let kindness prevail, even if the world misunderstands. It's never too late to embrace the innate humanity bestowed upon us and to find hope by opening our eyes to a better way.

Christen Kuikoua

added by anonymous
5 months ago

There were a lot of brands trying to emulate that look, there was n’t anyone doing what Hoka was doing.

Jay Sole

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I love her music, so of course I ’m going to emulate her.

Ashley Leechin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She made a lot of sacrifices for me growing up, and I can really see, you know, what a huge difference that this made in my life. But she was always kind to everybody. She always helped anybody out if she saw somebody in need. And it's really something I try to remember and really try to emulate in my own life.

Rick Kuhnla Jr.

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My father was someone that I always looked to for guidance. I sought to emulate his beliefs and his actions. He was a former Jesuit Catholic priest turned professor and scientist. My father led by word and by deed. He taught me ethics and morality through the study of philosophy, especially that of Socrates.

Mick Mulroy

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

There were plenty of times where he could have easily decided to go do something else, but he stuck with it. I ’d say his hard work is the biggest thing that I try to emulate with him.

Troy Snitker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Just he’s been through so much in his career, there were plenty of times where he could have easily decided to go do something else, but he stuck with it. I ’d say his hard work is the biggest thing that I try to emulate with him.

Troy Snitker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The passion and vision of President President Glenda Glover, Dr. Mikki Allen and all of Tennessee State University's leadership in pushing to make hockey a more diverse and inclusive sport through this feasibility study is both inspiring and humbling, through their passion and track record they will be able to create another success story for other schools and communities to chase and ideally emulate. Pair that with National Hockey League incredible community, National Hockey League fan base and wealth of community corporate partners and National Hockey League will collectively take SMASHVILLE and National Hockey League sport to new heights because of their pursuit of excellence on all fronts.

Kevin Westgarth

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Electrons move through reality. You're not going to be able to emulate everything the electrons are doing, in software.

Ryan Schott

added by SuperQuotes
3 years ago

He (Wright Jr.) is going to be affected throughout his entire life not having his father there to take him to prom or give him advice, to argue with and not having his father to be able to emulate... and to be able to mimic like my kids do to me, who is he going to follow through life?

Thomas Bowers

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

You should never think you're too good to do a job. And I think you should be like that in everything you do. 'Be a forever new guy' is what I try to emulate, and I don't mean as in you shouldn't step up to the role and be a leader and delegate appropriately, but never think that you are above taking out the trash or that you're above not respecting the secretary or the lowest junior enlisted.

Jonny Kim

added by anonymous
3 years ago

It was just a joke. No one hits hard, the five breakfast cereals is a joke that's supposed to emulate getting beat into a gang. You know, it is just a spoof, a parody, but it got taken too far.

Russell Schultz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

But my thing was never to emulate or to become the next' Game of Thrones,'.

Louis Leterrier

Found on CNN
4 years ago

All we ask is that you pay it forward, you can remember Kira Conard, and you can emulate Kira Conard.

Steve Nielsen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What I was trying to do was actually capture the sound of being out in the ocean, when I'd be out there surfing, I could feel this thunderous sound. It was just like the screaming, the roar of the tiger. When I started banging on my guitar, I was trying to emulate that same sound - that fat, thick sound.

Dick Dale

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When Juul came out with very high-nicotine electronic cigarettes, it triggered a nicotine arms race amongst competitive companies seeking to emulate the success of Juul.

Robert Jackler

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I mean [ Fletcher ] won an Academy Award doing it, so there's no where to go but down, i absolutely feel that pressure because I have an enormous reverence for Louis Fletcher and for Louise Fletcher portrayal in that movie and for the movie itself. This story stands on its own in Sixth Sense that we are starting many years prior to when we meet Nurse Ratched in the movie' Cuckoos Nest,' so I know that I'm not going to be trying to emulate what she did because this is prior to her doing what she did in the movie. I have a little bit of leeway there, but I'm certainly thinking about it.

Sarah Paulson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They have probably a couple of guys, but one in particular that they try to emulate who's back out here playing, and he's become a friend of theirs, a lot of these guys have gotten to know Tiger and being able to say, 'OK, this is what he does, we mightn't be able to achieve everything that he has, but we can at least try'.

Rory McIlroy

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Parents sort of have this attitude where ‘do as I say, not as I do,’ if they are on the phone kids will emulate that. So parents need to have boundaries and rules about phone use.

Sanam Hafeez

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

[But] there’s an inspirational sort of strength and endurance and quality of tenacity that he possesses, i’m much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who’s willing to step into the firing line. But I’ve learned from this guy. He has qualities that I would hope to emulate if [stuff] ever hit the fan. But I’d like to think I’ve done it on screen, maybe I could be a zombie-killer in real life if the apocalypse hit. But then, I’d obviously die a horrible, quick death in reality.

Andrew Lincoln

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A key part of the tool is that it's based on replicating the mechanical challenges that chimpanzees experience in the wild in their daily lives, so when they're moving around forest canopy they have to deal with branches flexing under their weight, they have to deal with planning routes in advance so they know where to go to get to the next food source and we're trying to emulate these mechanical challenges into the lives of captive chimpanzees.

Susannah Thorpe

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When I was a kid, I loved Lucile Ball, i just really wanted to emulate her, I suppose. My passion for acting and producing has just grown over the years.

Aimee Teegarden

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This is a place where I think President Obama missed a real golden opportunity, because he has a stable family, loving children -- great, balanced children from what I can tell -- a strong relationship with his wife, and he could have shown that as a model for others to emulate. And I don't think he's done it as much.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

She showed mercy and we need to show that, i'm here for my boys. They need someone to emulate. We need people who are kind and loving and forgiving to look up to.

Kathy McNolte

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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