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How to use the word Imitate in a Sentence?

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I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep… Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

May Sarton

added by JokerGem
7 months ago

Life phenomena Represents God For creation, Only Imitate the Creator For just like life God is the Teacher And Believing and Following his Words Garantee you Salvation Doesn't always garantee you wealth But eternal life for sure.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
8 months ago

Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.

Edgar Cayce

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

pictures of life grinding to a halt decorating walls movement in dead motion limbs askew mouths stretched wide in motionless scream. art as we see it – feeling it’s another story. so does art imitate life or does life imitate A—R—T and where does it end – on cold walls before disinterested observers?

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

The Ai-Da project was developed to address the debate over the ethics of further developing AI to imitate humans and human behavior, it's finally dawning on us all that technology is having a major impact on all aspects of life and we're seeking to understand just how much this technology can do and what it can teach us about ourselves.

Aidan Meller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Footsteps find a reason to exist as they imitate the winds, moving with the intensity of a hurricane when arrives the blessing of dance

Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
3 years ago

This is still the early days for blockchain networks. Many others are getting built out, not all of them are trying to imitate bitcoin.

Greg King

Found on CNN
3 years ago

listen! jamaicans has long known how americans-black or white-try to imitate their way of speaking. We call it-mannerisms.Black americans will visit and mingle to learn and steal some of our creative ways which they will later put their own rubber stamps on...But they will never say that we influenced them. For example- the words-brakkish, and madeekscomes from jamaica. One was as old as my mother's mother. The other was coined in my time.I will define them here separately. They are all in my archival-lyrics slangs and interpretations. A so wi stay!

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
3 years ago

I don't think students comprehend the reality that they can be electrocuted and killed, or start a fire, parents need to talk to their children and tell them if you see this stuff, don't try to imitate it.

Plymouth Fire Chief Edward Bradley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Think of the sensors we've developed like a human hand. We've designed the same thing for the robot so that we imitate the human hand, every obstacle that it might have, like a head bobbing out the window, the robot will self-correct and move around it so as not to break a window.

Yaron Schwarcz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You see they can walk one or two meters on two legs but also these animals are so used (to humans), they like to imitate and do what people do, we are always together, we feed them, we walk with them, we accompany them in their natural environment, we are in charge of their security. This is why these gorillas are used to us, their guardians and no one else, no journalist, no visitor would have been able to take this photo.

Mathieu Shamavu

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We know that children are strongly influenced by media characters, they think they are cool, and they're likely to imitate their behavior.

Brad Bushman

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We are more likely to imitate violence that is by attractive perpetrators who are justified for what they do, so superhero violence is kind of a really good recipe for that.

Sarah Coyne

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's troubling to me that the perpetrators of the violent acts are the good guys, because that communicates the idea that aggression is justifiable as long as it's committed by a good guy, we are more likely to imitate violence that is by attractive perpetrators who are justified for what they do, so superhero violence is kind of a really good recipe for that.

Brad Bushman

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

Edgar Degas

added by regnumveritatis
7 years ago

Donot imitate others because it damages your personality.

Bahram Baloch

added by anonymous
7 years ago

I think one of the big problems in Democratic politics is an ideology that's organized completely around Republican politics and ideology, and the only way we take somebody's measure is to evaluate how vigorously they oppose or how closely they imitate Republican policies.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We started making the costumes, finding the wigs, designing choreographies and even trying to imitate the characters' voices.

Juliette Fernandez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If I ever did that, I would be ridiculed all over the place. I won't do it. I'm not going to imitate her, she's barking like a dog, and they're saying 'wonderful.'.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Lionel Trilling

added by anonymous
10 years ago

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Honoré de Balzac

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

Woody Allen

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

Margaret Fuller

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Miguel de Cervantes

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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