personate
Example Sentences
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He was, besides, a ventriloquist, and could thus personate and imitate any character or any voice he chose.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
But to imagine he could personate the brave St. Udo!
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
He personate bad Envy; yet say so, He lickt at Homer's mouth, not from below.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
By his counsel the god celebrated a sham marriage with a wooden image, dressed up to personate Plataea, daughter of Asopus.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
The cast of parts has unluckily not been preserved, but it is sufficient for us to know that the lower boys were put into requisition to personate the mutes.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
