INVITE in a Sentence

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The bridegroom arrived and also a large company of guests, for the miller had taken care to invite all his friends and relations.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVITE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
invite
 v.  make a polite, formal, or friendly request to someone
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There was nothing to do but invite him to stay, although Aunt Pitty knew how the doctor and Mrs. Meade felt about him and how bitter Fanny was against any man not in uniform.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  And they did not invite the Rhett Butlers to their homes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  To it she intended to invite everyone she had ever known in Atlanta, all the old friends and all the new and charming ones she had met since returning from her honeymoon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  If you do invite them, over my request, you will find yourself in the embarrassing position of having no host in your home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
5  Carol suggested that Miss Sherwin stay for supper, and that Kennicott invite Guy Pollock, the much-praised lawyer, the poetic bachelor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  I could invite a Miles Bjornstam to dinner without being afraid of the Haydocks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  Young farmers who were in town for Saturday came tramping through the yard to the back door to engage dances, or to invite Tony to parties and picnics.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: X
8  They had also come to invite her to play vingt-et-un one evening at Mrs. Merriman's.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIII
9  He knew an abundance of simple acts to propitiate and invite the approaches of the little people, and he resolved to play his part right skilfully.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  It was late in the summer afternoon, and the doors and windows of the large parlor all stood open, to invite any stray breeze, that might feel in a good humor, to enter.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  The bridegroom arrived and also a large company of guests, for the miller had taken care to invite all his friends and relations.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
12  Dantes was at length roused from his revery by the voice of Faria, who, having also been visited by his jailer, had come to invite his fellow-sufferer to share his supper.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
13  One of the cavaliers then hastened to invite Teresa, without whom it was impossible for the quadrille to be formed, but the young girl had disappeared.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
14  Yes; but we do not invite people of fashion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 39. The Guests.
15  He was an old friend of mine and if he had not so bad a memory he ought to invite me to your wedding, seeing he came to mine.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
Example Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
16  You are cordially invited to attend the annual parish meeting.
17  Parents are invited to attend the open house next Thursday.
18  They invited us to the party, but we had to refuse because we were busy.
19  The Bakers have invited us out for a meal tonight.
20  We are working on the assumption that everyone invited will turn up.
21  I invited him for eight o'clock, but he didn't show up until nine-thirty.
22  Bud has invited us to go sailing this weekend.
23  Mrs Dobson invited us to dinner after church.
24  You are invited to view our autumn collection.
25  I invited them to dinner, a gesture of goodwill.
26  She had hugged him exuberantly and invited him to dinner the next day.
27  She invited his relations to dinner.
28  The director invited him to score the movie.
29  He was piqued to discover that he hadn't been invited.
30  Greenpeace has been invited to appraise the environmental costs of such an operation.