mimicry

How To Use mimicry In A Sentence

• Nagesh compèred the show and kept the audience entertained with his mimicry.
• The technique they use to construct the documentary seems to me to be a loving reference to your work, rather than mimicry or a take-off.
• One of my favorite talks was the presentation on biomimicry, or innovation inspired by nature.
• Miss Burney protested indignantly, her long thin nose turning pink with mortification at this irreverent piece of mimicry
• All art is but facsimile of nature and the art of imitating someone or something classically in order to entertain is mimicry.
• Such in all times has been the rise and decline of fashion; and the absurd mimicry of the _citizens_, even of the lowest classes, to their very ruin, in straining to rival the _newest fashion_, has mortified and galled the courtier. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
• Mani's mimicry skills were discovered by the late Fr. Abel of Kalabhavan.
• I'm thinking, for instance, of the manifold practical advances today from biomimicry to hydrogen fuel cars.
• Formerly I had fasted and prayed and made sacrifice on the Day of Atonement, but it was more than half play, in mimicry of my elders. The Promised Land
• Mimicry "may have adaptive value, " the Dutch team concluded, "enhancing the chances of successful procreation of those members of a species who adopt this specific behavior.