MIMIC in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for MIMIC, such as:

1. The wan mirrors get back their mimic life.
2. She'll mimic all the people for us when we get home.
3. Scientists process skin tissue to mimic embryonic stem cells.
4. The computer model is able to mimic very closely the actions of a golfer.
5. Neural networks are computer systems which mimic the workings of the brain.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIMIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mimic
 v.  copy or imitate closely, especially in speech, expression
Classic Sentence:
1  The mimic warfare of the evening became at last as wearisome to me as the routine of school in the morning because I wanted real adventures to happen to myself.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
2  He began to mimic his son's flat accent, saying half to himself: "At the chapel."
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
3  I might mimic a passion that I do not feel, but I cannot mimic one that burns me like fire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  The wan mirrors get back their mimic life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
5  She'll mimic all the people for us when we get home.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
6  Ashamed of his apprehensions, the young man turned toward the water, and strove to divert his attention to the mimic stars that dimly glimmered on its moving surface.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  The boys had resumed their sports in the clearing, and were enacting a mimic chase to the post among themselves.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
8  Now, this is related to show how, in the opinion of Xenophon, the chase is a mimic representation of war, and therefore to be esteemed by the great as useful and honourable.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIX.
Example Sentence:
1  The computer model is able to mimic very closely the actions of a golfer.
2  Neural networks are computer systems which mimic the workings of the brain.
3  Scientists process skin tissue to mimic embryonic stem cells.