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

Their daily life is not in the same degree a course of habituation to the emulative and invidious motives and maneuvers of the pecuniary side of industry.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

Girls at school vexed each other with emulative boasting: "We had fifty calls on New Year's Day."

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

The two categories—the emulative habit of life and the habit of devout observances—are therefore to be taken as complementary elements of the barbarian type of human nature and of its modern barbarian variants.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein