One finds him all over the world, neither aping the manners of others nor treading on the sensibilities of those less fortunate than himself.
These big self-conscious children, who spent their time in aping each other, these wonderful apes reigned and held sway over the Parisians: and the dramatic authors were their chief ministers.
Many of the scandals of the Court of James might be ascribed to thisaping of Southern manners.
Sunday, and the neighbors thronging to mass,--aping my betters, and getting myself and yourself laughed at.
Were the primitive folk down here aping their masters and having a ball of their own?
Grandson of Momus, blithe and debonair, Who aping Pan, with an inverted broom Canst brush the cobwebs from the brows of care.
Stifling their sense, they lived, aping the fool, In public praising act and word and thing Just as the whims of madmen swayed their breath.
In the later part of the Life we meet phrases in which Boswell is evidently aping the true Johnsonian style.
Now, this contempt of money was, no doubt, a pose, if not a habit of the aristocratic society of the time, and Shakespeare may have been aping the tone of his betters in putting to show a most lavish generosity.
Surely if Shakespeare had had any leaning that way, we should have found again and again ambiguous or suggestive expressions given to some of these boys when aping girls; but not one.
Nothing in life can be more ludicrous or contemptible than an old man aping the passions of his youth.
He has a singular talent of aping the measure and tone of Byron, and this poem goes to the tune of Don Juan, but it is the Champagne after it has stood two days with the cork drawn.
He was the founder of a numerous school, whose adherents, lacking true greatness of soul, comfort themselves, and seek to hoodwink others, by aping excellence which they do not possess.
The injury inflicted on Judaism by the aping of foreign customs, and the dilution of its own strength, cannot be altogether attributed to it.
The King let his jaw fall, in a fine aping of amazement.
These, however, were mainly in the direction of aping masculinity in sport and dress.
Behold him, humbly cringing, wait Upon the minister of state; View him soon after to inferiors Aping the conduct of superiors; He promises with equal air, And to perform takes equal care.
At these disreputable gatherings the pervert of the male persuasion displays his habits by aping everything feminine.
He had lived his life too closely in accomplishing his purpose to become at this late day a victim of such simple vanity; the ultra simple vanity of aping the rich.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
