emulative
Example Sentences
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Then came the Erie Canal and the frenzied funding of emulative projects, many of which failed, but the successes redeemed the rest.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016
His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before long, her emulative spirit got her so interested in this particular game that she forgot not only the sham skirt but the sham pretense upon which she had bullied Irene.
From The Madigans by Orson Lowell
Admirable and emulative the beauty of it passed into a proverb:—“C’est beau comme le Cid.”
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
School to him was such a delight, that in a spirit of emulative self-denial, he never started from home, a block away, until a minute before the tardy bell rang.
From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Mathew Joseph Holt
