INVENT in a Sentence

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165 example sentences for INVENT, such as:

1. The invention is a collective effort.
2. Necessity is the mother of invention.
3. I will reap large profits from my new invention.
4. The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude.
5. The idea eventually led to the invention of the telephone.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
invent
 v.  come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
 v.  make up something artificial or untrue
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  They want me to marry again at once, and I have to invent stratagems in order to deceive them.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
2  I can much more easily believe Mr. Bingley's being imposed on, than that Mr. Wickham should invent such a history of himself as he gave me last night; names, facts, everything mentioned without ceremony.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
3  The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  I grew heartily ashamed of the pleasing visions I had formed; and thought no tyrant could invent a death into which I would not run with pleasure, from such a life.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
5  I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER XI.
6  Feelings and emotions are also so decidedly bourgeois that you have to invent a man without them.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
7  The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
8  "What one man can invent another can discover," said Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
9  Some account of them and of their appearance was in the papers, and would naturally occur to anyone who wished to invent a story in which imaginary robbers should play a part.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
10  It may be as wrong an explanation as mortal wit could invent.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
11  I am afraid, my dear, he has to invent it all, for it fits exactly into whatever else he has to say.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  Again he paused, and I could see that he was trying to invent an excuse.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  He knew that he would have to speak a great deal, to invent and to amuse, and his brain and throat were too dry for such a task.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
14  He began to invent sentences and phrases from the notice which his book would get.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
15  A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  The invention of the computer was a milestone in the history of man.
17  He's been trying to determine if there is a market for his invention.
18  The invention is a collective effort.
19  The idea eventually led to the invention of the telephone.
20  The invention of the wheel was a milestone in the history of the world.
21  Necessity is the mother of invention.
22  This combination of cheese and apples is not an invention of the north of England.
23  The fundamental problem lies in their inability to distinguish between reality and invention.
24  He hopes a charge would not deter people from enjoying this great invention.
25  The object of invention is to provide a method for limiting the maximum pressure of a power-assisted steering system.
26  I will reap large profits from my new invention.
27  In light of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide a device and a method which can superficially incise prepared meat products .
28  The invention differs from many conventional fire proof thatch roof.
29  The invention of the personal computer proved a historic watershed, for it opened the way to today's Information Age.
30  The invention of aircraft caused a revolution in our ways of travelling.