Acting is an imitative art.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He was even vexed at what I translated by the term imitative harmony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

Hence they may also be termed imitative or imaginative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Art] Reference

“calloo-calloo” — a mimetic term imitative of the most frequent notes of the bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

I recall from the 70s this kind of imitative charisma, a deceptive show of desire to be accepted by what is perceived as power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prophecies about Obama?] Reference

Is it a word imitative of sound?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850] Reference

Poetry's form is "imitative": a dramatic effect working through its audience's emotional and intellectual identifications.    From Wordnik.com.  [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference

If one can peer through the darkness of Morris’s diction, he will discover a fairly pleasing use of the so-called imitative measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference

"imitative" men had sought chiefly for dainty conceits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] Reference

A child is the most imitative creature in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

The women are even more imitative of their mistresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

These Chinese are truly said to be an imitative people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference

But imitative form can excuse only so much uncommunicating prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports From The Heartland] Reference

No argument is needed to prove that man is essentially an imitative animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference

Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

By imitative methods the white man survives the awful cold and the pitiless conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

And still more unsuited is sculpture, the most imitative and objective of all the arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

We recommend the admirers of imitative art to inspect these beautiful and artistic gems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference

The difference is, that he was imitative and affected, where she was original and genuine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Man is an imitative animal, and insensibly conforms to the models and examples before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference

In gesture language, the gesture has to remain fairly imitative or expressive to be intelligible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

This magazine had previously been chock full of imitative surrealist poems, until Von Rotten got a hold of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 13] Reference

An instance of their ingenuity and imitative powers in matting, was a thing perfectly unknown amongst them till.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference

The scheme of triglyphs and mutules in Doric buildings was, therefore, the imitative device that I have described.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

The main inflections and the general tenor of the language, however, remain imitative, as is natural with children.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference

Dutch and Flemish schools; it was admirable in its lucid and harmonious, but mostly so in its imitative, character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Thus, then, the old quarrel of the philosopher with the imitative arts seems to be revived in respect of the novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference

They hate being tagged "regionalists" - it sounds provincial and too cute, when there's nothing imitative about their work.    From Wordnik.com.  [A SENSE OF PLACE] Reference

And I can't really say literally because I'm not being imitative at all, but I'm sure something must seep into you because.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Towner's Guitar Journey] Reference

All the colouring was like it, rich and glorifying and unearthly, and imitative of the sanctifying light in old cathedrals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

As these characters are transformed from innovative to imitative, viewers will inevitably tire of them, if they haven't already.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Much Of a Bad Thing] Reference

Their imitative faculty and powers of memory are really wonderful; as an instance of the former perhaps the following may not be amiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

He is not satisfied with the mere dreams of his imagination, but he must also attempt to realize them through the medium of imitative art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

Such limitation seems no more possible than in painting, poetry, music, or any other field of spontaneous imitative or creative expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference