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Example sentences for "impersonating"

Lexicographically close words:
impersonality; impersonally; impersonate; impersonated; impersonates; impersonation; impersonations; impersonator; impertinence; impertinences
  1. You're all pulled for a bunch of cheap sure-thing experts, but this guy has got the lock-step comin' to him for impersonating an officer.

  2. Just as we have Dan pull off the pinch, in jumps Sprig Foles and pinches Dan for impersonating an officer.

  3. I think this is some Unktomi who has played some trick on White Plume and has taken his bow and arrows and also his clothes, and hearing of your offer, is here impersonating White Plume.

  4. You will need medicine to rub on yourself when the chief gets through with you," said the young man who had discovered that Unktomi was impersonating White Plume.

  5. It would add to the interest of the scene if the actor impersonating Hamlet availed himself of the position marked in the second quarto for his entrance, and actually saw the King and Polonius concealing themselves.

  6. The drama, moreover, is familiar to the playgoer, while eminent actors and actresses, with no intention of impersonating the creations of an inferior dramatist, have won distinction in the characters of the Cardinal and of Queen Katharine.

  7. Yet such a one is not an actor at all in the legitimate sense of the word, and if he is without vocal or physical flexibility, he is limited to the business of impersonating his own personality.

  8. I had thought of impersonating her and amusing myself with d'Hausonville, but I concluded it wasn't worth while.

  9. The wish to inspire fear or to gain personal power over others are motives for impersonating wild and fearsome animals, as effective where superstitious people are concerned as the less common faculty of transforming actual flesh.

  10. They find the plan of impersonating an animal in its lair, for the sake of safety, say, extremely useful.

  11. You are wanted by the Federal government for impersonating an officer.

  12. If he's the same person, his real name is Claude Arkwright and he's wanted for impersonating an officer and on various other charges.

  13. Apparently--here Durham thought with Conniston--some person had been impersonating Bernard, so the lawyer sent a message to Miss Riordan asking her to call.

  14. Then someone is impersonating you so as to arouse the wrath of your grandfather against you.

  15. If he were impersonating a detective after a criminal masquerading as a good citizen, the School-Master would be startled some night by a hoarse voice at his key-hole exclaiming: 'Ha!

  16. Of Noises, that are popularly attributed to Poltergeists, but which I think are due either to Phantasms of the Dead or to Vagrarian, Impersonating or Vice Elementals, I have received many accounts.

  17. I think Impersonating Elementals sometimes manifest themselves at Spiritualistic seances, when they appear as relatives and friends of the sitters, and are pronounced to be such by the "controls.

  18. Merriam had a sudden vision of the horrid predicament they would have been in if Norman had actually been murdered in Jackson Park at the very time when he was impersonating him at the hotel.

  19. Into what tangle had the man he was unwittingly impersonating got himself--and in default of his appearing on the scene in what would his absence involve poor Bulstrode?

  20. Why, they are capable of impersonating a number of characters.

  21. Mrs. White "presided," and in the matter of reading rhymes and impersonating the characters, it must be admitted the young gentlemen had the advantage.

  22. Radha and Krishna but palace ladies impersonating them, is Dr.

  23. He stated that he had heard through Asa Dickley that Dave was having trouble with a party who was impersonating him, and added that a person calling himself Dave Porter was owing him a bill of fifteen dollars for five days' board.

  24. You knew how this Ward Porton has been impersonating Dave.

  25. I have termed them Impersonating Elementals, since they consist of the astral forms of the dead, that may be utilized by Elementals.

  26. Very daintily indeed were these youths brought up.

  27. And when death comes, and this other self departs, whither has it gone?

  28. From the impersonating of the forces of nature to the creation of imaginary deities there is but a step.

  29. Slaves impersonating gods were also sacrificed among the northern Indians, the so-called Indios bravos.

  30. The impersonating of characters gives an intensity and realism to the thought that cannot be effected in any other way.

  31. The teacher needs to awaken strongly the imagination in picturing scenes, in interpreting poetic images and figures, and in impersonating characters.

  32. So he devised this trick of impersonating Mr. Schulz on the telephone, eh?

  33. I saw him best when I was a spectator in the Colosseum while impersonating Salsonius Salinator, for in my guise as colonial magnate I sat well forward.

  34. You have nothing to be ashamed of unless it be such a trifling peccadillo as impersonating Salsonius Salinator.

  35. By impersonating her brother he had raised her hopes high.

  36. I suppose you had some idea of impersonating Bransford, hoping to get a slice of the property.

  37. But Agony, having seen the mischievous gleam that came into Bengal's eyes when she so suddenly changed her mind about impersonating Miss Peckham, wondered as to its meaning.

  38. That should have told me that someone else was impersonating her.

  39. Indeed, the vaudeville sketch was for years the natural vehicle and "artistic reward" for clever actors who made a marked success in impersonating some particular character in burlesque or in the legitimate.

  40. It may now be worth while thus to sum up the ideal structure: A routine is so arranged that the introduction stamps the monologist as bright, and the character he is impersonating or telling about as a real "character.

  41. Ristori at Naples I found her principal actors and actresses, who had apparently begun life as domestic servants, continuing the occupations of their youth while at the same time impersonating on the stage the most exalted characters.

  42. But it was an understood thing between the singers impersonating these two characters that they were to keep at a respectful distance one from the other.


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