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Example sentences for "emulated"

Lexicographically close words:
empyreal; empyrean; empyreumatic; emselves; emulate; emulates; emulating; emulation; emulative; emulous
  1. Those of St. Albans were emulated by those of St. Edmondsbury, where fifty thousand men broke their way into the abbey precincts, and forced the monks to grant a charter of freedom to the town.

  2. The nobles were emulated in this by their followers, and the good fellowship of the meeting was signalized by abundant revelry, night only ending the merrymaking.

  3. Judges and juries emulated one another in admitting a misgiving 'that we were sadly deluded and mistaken.

  4. The magic excellence of the magicians, who successfully emulated the miracles of Moses, was apparently assisted by a legerdemain similar to that of the Hindu jugglers of the present day.

  5. They revived old names and old titles, and emulated the art of the olden days.

  6. He emulated with considerable success the career of his great predecessor, Hammurapi.

  7. No one has emulated him better in the delicacy of his countenances.

  8. The ardour of the capital for the art was emulated by every town of the state; all had their painters, but all did not submit to the principles of Venice and Murano.

  9. For God has wished all good for His servants, and he who wishes the servants of God evil is against God; he has not obeyed the will and emulated the example of God; he has followed Satanic leadings and footprints.

  10. The blacks of Africa were in complete bondage, but your emancipation led to their freedom also—that is, the European states emulated the Americans, and the emancipation proclamation became universal.

  11. All other considerations were lost in the goadings of a wounded spirit, and he might have soon emulated Lawton in hardihood, had not Wellmere and his troops at this moment crossed the brook into the open plain.

  12. There, in defiance of her marriage vow, she emulated the strictest chastity of the cloister while in the bonds of marriage.

  13. The women often rivalled the men in libertinism, and even emulated them sometimes in their riotous manners.

  14. But the greater number emulated the courage of their leader.

  15. He never emulated those of his own age, save in what is best; and did that so as to pain no one, but make all rejoice over him.

  16. When Antony saw him, he emulated him in that which is noble.

  17. It is true Leonore could not go with her; the poor Leonore must remain at home, on account of indisposition; and very soon, therefore, Eva and Petrea emulated each other as to which should remain with her.

  18. Mrs. Gunilla was there, and she and the hostess emulated each other in welcoming their friend.

  19. The children looked at each other, somewhat surprised; but as Henrik and Louise took the little stranger by the hand, they soon all emulated each other in bidding her welcome.

  20. Slowly others emulated this example, and by 1900 the Bonanza, Exchequer and Eagle mines had been re-opened.

  21. The culture of this pretty, silver town was to be emulated by the gold town of American City--but not its sobriety.

  22. These emulated the conduct of Chasdai in encouraging learning and poetry.

  23. The nations of Europe emulated one another in exercising their cruelty upon the Jews; and it was always the clergy who, in the name of a religion of love, stirred up this undying hatred.

  24. It was in this branch that, towards the end of the ninth century, several Rabbanites emulated them.

  25. He emulated the fame of his Mahometan predecessors, Abderrahman III and Alhakem.

  26. Even King Chilperic, although he bore no particular good-will to the Catholic clergy, emulated the example set by Avitus.

  27. Africanus emulated his father's example and was none the richer for his overthrow of Carthage.

  28. Publius Lentulus, however, in the year of my consulship, eclipsed all that had gone before him, and Scaurus emulated him.

  29. Whilst he studied under Rosselli, he became enamoured of the grand chiaro-scuro of Vinci, and emulated him assiduously.

  30. In some pictures he also emulated Guercino, as for instance in the Leander in the ducal gallery, which was long considered as a Guercino.

  31. Giovanni Antonio, the son of Matteo Lappoli, was the scholar of Pontormo, and the friend of Perino and of Rosso, with whom he lived in Tuscany, and whose style he emulated in Rome.

  32. Vasari, to whom the work was entrusted, there represented Andromeda delivered by Perseus, and procured the assistance of the academicians, who thus emulated each other, and strove to recommend themselves to the court.

  33. Bernardino, where he emulated the ablest artists of Siena, he appears great in composition.

  34. This desperate profanation was emulated in the provinces.

  35. Down to the last days of Babylon, Babylonian kings emulated his example, modelling even their inscriptions after his.

  36. Oriental display and absolutism were emulated by the young king.

  37. The parson dashed his wig to the ground, and emulated his pupil in the loudness of his objurgations.

  38. He and his black allies landed here and there in darkness, and emulated the most lawless of our opponents in their alacrity at seizing and burning.

  39. In the efforts for the recovery of their empire, they emulated the valor, discipline, and tactics of their antagonists.

  40. Among his rivals was Guarini, who afterwards emulated him in pastoral poetry, and who accused him on this occasion of courting two ladies at once.

  41. Spenser thought so; and has imitated and emulated it in one of his own finest passages.

  42. This hasty surrender at Metz, a still greater disaster to France than that of Sedan, was not emulated at Paris, which for four months held out against all the efforts of the Germans.

  43. To fill such a part no one was better adapted than the advocate Gambetta, who emulated the career of the leaders of the Revolution, and whose soul glowed with a passionate ardor of patriotism.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emulated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.