Small boys imitate older brothers who hit home runs, and so grown-up fishermen imitate fishing guides.

The first boy imitated a machine gun, which set Flora's teethon edge.

More or less clumsily, the boys imitated him.

The boy hadn't just imitated a gruff bossman's tone; he seemed actually to be speaking in the voice of someone else.

Mr. Nasser, 50, said the boys were not imitating the militants whose images appear on posters and on the pendants worn by many youths here.

The boy could imitate anybody perfectly.

The small boy watching, imitated him so perfectly that all the children laughed, disappointed though they were.

They thought they'd persuaded him that the boy had been imitating a horse.

The boys imitated him.

Little boys imitated their fathers.