EMULATE in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for EMULATE, such as:
1. They hope to emulate the success of other software companies.
2. Some smaller cities now emulate the major capitals in their cultural offerings.
3. The havoc that months had previously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours.
4. To be sure, my dear, that is very stupid indeed, and shows a great want of genius and emulation.
5. In a brief essay, describe a person you admire, someone whose virtues you would like to emulate.
2. Some smaller cities now emulate the major capitals in their cultural offerings.
3. The havoc that months had previously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours.
4. To be sure, my dear, that is very stupid indeed, and shows a great want of genius and emulation.
5. In a brief essay, describe a person you admire, someone whose virtues you would like to emulate.
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Meanings and Examples of EMULATE
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emulate
v. be a match or counterpart for; eager to equal or excel
Classic Sentence:
1 'My son's great capacity was tempted on, there, by a feeling of voluntary emulation and conscious pride,' the fond lady went on to say.
2 To be sure, my dear, that is very stupid indeed, and shows a great want of genius and emulation.
3 Even the slightest word of encouragement from Alexander Petrovitch could throw a lad into a transport of tremulous joy, and arouse in him an honourable emulation of his fellows.
4 Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
5 His name to-day, in this broad land, means little, and comes to fifty million ears laden with no incense of memory or emulation.
6 The havoc that months had previously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours.
7 Imitating the example, and emulating the confidence of their more experienced associates, Munro and Duncan slept without fear, if not without uneasiness.
8 "There are people who laugh at the horse that would not dare to laugh at the master," cried the young emulator of the furious Treville.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
Context Highlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
9 The seamen's clamour rises in emulous dissonance; each cheers his comrade: Seek we Crete and our forefathers.
10 We hurry far away in precipitate flight, with the suppliant who had so well merited rescue; and silently cut the cable, and bending forward sweep the sea with emulous oars.
11 Then chosen men with the priest of the altar in emulous haste bring roasted flesh of bulls, and pile baskets with the gift of ground corn, and serve the wine.
12 He ended; all with spirit alike emulous form a wedge and advance in serried masses to the walls.
13 Now indeed Rutulians and Trojans and all Italy turned in emulous gaze, and they who held the high city, and they whose ram was battering the foundations of the wall, and unarmed their shoulders.
14 Then I bid leave the harbour and sit down at the thwarts; emulously my comrades strike the water, and sweep through the seas.
Example Sentence:
1 In a brief essay, describe a person you admire, someone whose virtues you would like to emulate.
2 Do these clowns want us to emulate the Japanese "work until you die" ethic?
3 Some smaller cities now emulate the major capitals in their cultural offerings.
4 They hope to emulate the success of other software companies.