1.   He laughs, mimicking the sound of a cheap keyboard.

2.   He took the spliced, fractured sound of the heavily post-edited recordings he had made with Macero and mimicked that sound with his live band.

3.   In homage to its acronym, Coastal Offshore Warning alarms mimic the sound of a cow mooing in distress.

4.   Instrumental music, that is, which incorporates Asian overtone singing, vocal techniques borrowed from Mongolian monks and has been known to mimic the sound of machinery.

5.   Out for a walk near her home, Jeannie Scandlin heard a bird mimicking the sound of her telephone.

6.   Sure enough, her caged parrot had learned to mimic the sound of a ringing cell phone.

7.   It mimics the sound of the human voice and affects babies -- and adults -- like a lullaby.

8.   One boy dropped to the ground to take cover, and others mimicked the sound of gunfire.

9.   Traditionally, the language of parang was a creole patois or even pseudo-Spanish created as Trinidadians mimicked the sounds of Venezuelan workers, Ganpat said.