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do an impression of
verb as in impersonate
Example Sentences
The guest host expertly spoofed Celine Dion’s recent NFL appearance with a UFC-themed version of “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” and in a sketch that required Grande to do an impression of Jennifer Coolidge in a Maybelline commercial opposite current “SNL” impressionist Chloe Fineman and “SNL” legend Dana Carvey doing their own Coolidge takes, the pop star’s sounded most like “The White Lotus” Emmy winner.
Rory Scovel, who has a new special on HBO Max, used to do an impression of a guy who can’t play the piano hired to play the piano in a hotel lobby, struggling.
Most people, when asked to do an impression of Diana, probably would tilt their head or attempt a bashful gaze.
In casting the lead, Song sought a soul match for the character on the page, and not someone to do an impression of her.
Fetterman, despite coming from a well-to-do background, has a low-key “regular guy” public persona, and his staff took great pleasure, even before the grocery clip came to its attention, in satirizing Oz on social media as a fancyman struggling to do an impression of a normal Pennsylvanian.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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