COPY in a Sentence

Learn COPY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
180 example sentences for COPY, such as:
1. The copy answers to the original.
2. Compare the copy with the original.
3. European and Asiatic papers please copy.
4. I gave them each a copy to read in the library.
5. You can either write or phone to request a copy.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COPY
copy
 v.  reproduce someone's behavior or looks
 v.  reproduce or make an exact copy of
Classic Sentence: (113 in 8 pages)
1  The hushed class continued to copy out the themes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  Stephen sat down at his right and the priest at the other side of the table closed his copy of THE TABLET with an angry snap and stood up.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  European and Asiatic papers please copy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  It is the copy of his journal when abroad, and all that happened.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  I gave them each a copy to read in the library.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  One day when Father Butler was hearing the four pages of Roman History clumsy Leo Dillon was discovered with a copy of The Halfpenny Marvel.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
7  He still bought a copy of Reynolds's Newspaper every week but he attended to his religious duties and for nine-tenths of the year lived a regular life.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
8  Always hurry and scurry, looking for copy and sometimes not finding it: and then, always to have something new in your stuff.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
9  The middle of the month was passed and, if he could get the copy done in time, Mr. Alleyne might give him an order on the cashier.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
10  The man went up by the houses until he reached the door of the office, wondering whether he could finish his copy in time.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
11  The man listened to the clicking of the machine for a few minutes and then set to work to finish his copy.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
12  He struggled on with his copy, but when the clock struck five he had still fourteen pages to write.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
13  The man answered that he knew nothing about them, that he had made a faithful copy.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
14  A complete Wordsworth stood at one end of the lowest shelf and a copy of the Maynooth Catechism, sewn into the cloth cover of a notebook, stood at one end of the top shelf.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
15  The walls of the room were bare except for a copy of an election address.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1  We'll send you a copy as soon as it becomes available.
2  You will need to supply a hard copy version of all files.
3  Children can be seen to copy the behaviour of others whom they admire or identify with.
4  I chanced on a copy of the collection of Shakespeare's poems in the library.
5  Compare the copy with the original.
6  A backup copy of a computer program does not infringe copyright.
7  You can either write or phone to request a copy.
8  Pass the rest of the notices round the table so that everyone can have a copy.
9  If you want your free copy of the Patients' Charter fill this form in.
10  Never copy foreign things blindly or mechanically.
11  Obtain a copy of any form will have to repay that day.
12  New copies of the form can be duplicated from a master copy.
13  I attach a copy of my notes for your information.
14  The copy answers to the original.
15  The thieves replaced the original painting with a copy.