List of synonyms from "empty promise" to synonyms from "emulative"


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Definition of the day : « emulates »

  • verb copy the actions of
Example sentences :
  • Hearing of the artistic feats of eminent gamblers, he emulates them.
  • Extract from : « Gamblers and Gambling » by Henry Ward Beecher
  • M. Donnay is skilful, and he emulates Beardsley's wonderful, pure line, without always perfectly attaining to it.
  • Extract from : « Aspects and Impressions » by Edmund Gosse
  • Example stimulates and emulates, despite our reasoning faculties.
  • Extract from : « Curiosities of Medical Experience » by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
  • We are told of a third species, which emulates the scorpion in the malignity of its sting or bite.
  • Extract from : « An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. I (of 4) » by William Kirby
  • The "bachelor girl," on the other hand, has virtually all the liberty of the man whom her name indicates that she emulates.
  • Extract from : « Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife » by Marion Mills Miller
  • Unlike the Polish Jew, whose example of untiring industry he emulates, he has seldom much laid up against a rainy day.
  • Extract from : « How the Other Half Lives » by Jacob A. Riis
  • He emulates no man in anything but goodness, and that with more desire than hope to overtake.
  • Extract from : « Character Writings of the 17th Century » by Various
  • I, myself, could never have done much by either process, but he is made differently—imitates and emulates and all that.
  • Extract from : « Life and Letters of Robert Browning » by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
  • Or, it might be, that a worse beast still—always worst of all when he emulates the nature of the beast—man!
  • Extract from : « Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia » by William Gilmore Simms
  • He is no longer a copy of the Latin slaves, but a free agent who emulates their qualities.
  • Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature » by John Addington Symonds