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Mimicking in sentence

49 examples of Mimicking in a sentence

Mimicking a smile and experiencing it physically helps us understand whether our smile is fake or real, so we can understand the emotional state of the smiler.
So this is a plant that is mimicking the first plant.
It turns out that we can't even be in a group of people without instinctively mirroring, mimicking their opinions.
They put 25,000 sheep in one flock, really mimicking nature now with planned grazing, and they have documented a 50-percent increase in the production of the land in the first year.
But many years ago, we took the worst land in Zimbabwe, where I offered a £5 note in a hundred-mile drive if somebody could find one grass in a hundred-mile drive, and on that, we trebled the stocking rate, the number of animals, in the first year with no feeding, just by the movement, mimicking nature, and using a sigmoid curve, that principle.
They were spontaneously mimicking our vocalizations and our postures, and they were also inviting us into dolphin games.
Well, I said, you know what, instead of mimicking his style, I might as well call the real guy and ask him, and I sent him my books, and he answered that he was interested in working on the film with me because he could be a big fish in a small aquarium.
There are people who are mimicking the energy-harvesting device inside of purple bacterium, the people at ASU.
He said, "Take a black wetsuit, band it in yellow stripes like a bumblebee, and you'll be mimicking the warning systems of most marine species."
IVF works by mimicking the brilliant design of sexual reproduction.
But unlike most flowers, which attract a range of pollinators with sweet nectar, these masters of deception deploy other tactics– like pretending to be an insect’s mate, letting off alluring scents, and mimicking the appearance of other species.
Their oldest scam is mimicking the shapes and colours of other nectar-producing flowers— but without the sweet nectar.
In this dance, you're circling in a constant spin, mimicking the movement of the Sun and the passage of time.
In 2013, I joined the team, and together we used engineered surfaces mimicking the skin of sharks to prevent bacteria and other medical complications.
A company called Aquaporin is starting to make desalination membranes mimicking this technology.
Her decisions were very safe and I feel she was mimicking other actresses in films and not acting and making her own decisions.
Zahn spends so much time mimicking Duvall he does nothing else in the show.
The father figure in this story isn't living his own life, he's mimicking a fictional one.
The scene that the main kid was in where he was mimicking a game show host was my favorite.
My students were mimicking the lines and making fun off and on the whole way through.
Although Algiers does an almost excellent job mimicking each scene, the acting falls short as does the credibility of the characters.
Clearly, he was mimicking the overly florid style of the now-forgotten Victorian Romances that were easily outselling his immortal "Moby Dick."
Pretty much the entire movie seems like a cheap remake of the first, with scenes mimicking the things that happened in the first, only a lot more ridiculous and unlikely.
Mimicking its long title the movie finds ways to come close to the 90' mark.
For example, the parents of the children in the film as well as the many parents who took their children to see this movie, saw this as just children mimicking adults.
My favorite character in this film would have to be the sister/crack addict with turret's syndrome,her sudden out burst will have you crying and mimicking for weeks.
the improvisations of Styrofoam and polystyrene mimicking the giant killer snowman are classic, and this is clearly the intention - its one of the few films that has its budget as its main selling point.
Luckily, Sammo's character learns martial arts by imitating and mimicking his idol, Bruce Lee.
My dad, brother and I would laugh and sing along with Owl Jolson, mimicking the body moves.
I am not saying that this person can not make good animation but the wanted to pay tribute to really bad animation my mimicking these awful styles.