Model oneself after

Usage examples of emulate.

The perpetual resort of pilgrims and spectators insensibly formed, in the neighborhood of the temple, the stately and populous village of Daphne, which emulated the splendor, without acquiring the title, of a provincial city.

If the skein of historical causality had been different - if the brilliant guesses of the atomists on the nature of matter, the plurality of worlds, the vastness of space and time had been treasured and built upon, if the innovative technology of Archimedes had been taught and emulated, if the notion of invariable laws of Nature that humans must seek out and understand had been widely propagated - I wonder what kind of world we would live in now.

They went to Ganymede, and met Hope, Forta, and a third person: Doppie, on loan from Earth to emulate Spirit when Forta was not available.

Sesame handled this one by emulating a fire-breathing dragon who might set fire to the cloud of gas.

Then the face of Spirit came on: Forta, emulating her with uncanny precision.

Later Spirit learned that Forta had been abducted, but that Hope had managed to exchange places with her, emulating her while she emulated him and escaped.

She had substituted for Spirit, emulating her during her absence, serving as secretary, and that was all.

This Forta was emulating the original Forta, complete with her ignorance.

I had seen no wisdom in emulating his set routines and mental exercises designed to prepare a student to Skill.

Wix she took a fresh cue, emulating her governess and bridging over the interval with the simple expectation of trust.

Familiar as she had grown with the fact of the great alternative to the proper, she felt in her governess and her father a strong reason for not emulating that detachment.

Children learned adult behavior by emulating their parents, and sexual behavior was just one of many activities they mimicked.

East, the Abbassides soon disdained the abstinence and frugality of the first caliphs, and aspired to emulate the magnificence of the Persian kings.

Tair could not open his mouth without crowing, and the boy Hok strived mightily to emulate his older brother.

Mademoiselle Linders had gained her present position not less by her superior birth and education, than by that to which she would more willingly have attributed her elevation--a certain asceticism of life which she affected, an extra observance of fasts and vigils, which the good nuns looked upon with reverence, without caring to emulate such peculiar sanctity in their own persons.