mimicry

IPA: mˈɪmɪkri

An act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance of someone or something else.

Examples of "mimicry" in Sentences

They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery ….
“Sleepy, sleepy,” she twittered in mimicry of drowsy birds.
Antichrist assumes in mimicry the universal power really belonging to Christ.
'Men and women!' some one piped in mimicry; and the crowd dissolved in laughter.
The men try to make the most of it, even having a masked ball on the ice in mimicry of Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death.”
We are so alike, that when, last Passover, * in mimicry she twined my turban round her head, our uncle called her David.
We are so alike, that when last Passover, in mimicry, she twined my turban round her graceful head, our uncle called her David.
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.
She paused for the phrase, then made a gesture in mimicry of his, that included the Big House and its treasures, and said, All this does not influence me a particle.