personate

Example Sentences

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He had as a friend a man who resembled him very closely, and he offered this friend a sum of money if he would go to Melbourne and personate him.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph

Corolla personate, with the prominent palate often nearly closing the throat, spurred at base on the lower side.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

"Was this sent to you that you might personate the original?"

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

They did not always personate the same characters.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William

To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah