INVENTORY in a Sentence

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For INVENTORY, below is one of 13 sentences:
I wonder, now, if I was divided up and inventoried," said the latter as he ran over the paper, "how much I might bring.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVENTORY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inventory
 n.  check list; a collection of resources
Classic Sentence:
1  The valet bowed and retired, and Albert returned to his inventory.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 91. Mother and Son.
2  When this inventory was read over to the emperor, he directed me, although in very gentle terms, to deliver up the several particulars.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
3  There's messuages; tenements; napery; cattle; my dowry; an inventory.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
4  Nay, he even issued seignorial instructions that Selifan should go and muster the peasants about to be transferred, and make a complete and detailed inventory of them.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
5  I wonder, now, if I was divided up and inventoried," said the latter as he ran over the paper, "how much I might bring.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence:
1  The department store is auctioning off the remaining inventory.
2  The manager is compiling an inventory of all the hotel furniture.
3  They're likely to hold big fire sales to liquidate their inventory.
4  Some stores inventory their stock twice a month.
5  Alphabetic systems possess an inventory of symbols, called an alphabet, to represent the individual phonemes.
6  The inventory showed that the store was overstocked.
7  Less money tied up in inventory is more money in our pockets.
8  We must wait until we deplete our present inventory before we order replacements.