How to Use invent in a Sentence

invent

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  • We found out that he had invented the stories he told us about his military service.
  • She is credited with inventing a procedure that has helped to save thousands of lives.
  • Little builders can recreate favorite scenes or invent new ones with princess castles, Mickey Mouse train sets, and more fun toys.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024
  • Nonetheless sketches invented lives of those seeking a new bohemia or the secret of happiness.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 May 2024
  • Steps lead down into a macabre mass grave of citizens who could afford a process of mummification that the monks invented in the 17th century.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
  • Image Music education ranks as a low priority in Italy, the country that invented opera and gave the world some of its greatest composers.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo Alessandro Penso, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • The company invented the stainless-steel-bottle category when it was founded in 1913.
    — Jared Lindzon, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • Google and others expect to use the findings to improve their ability to invent artificial intelligence algorithms modeled on the human brain.
    — Adam Piore — Boston Globe, STAT, 10 May 2024
  • Maybe that denim strap just doesn’t fly for us Americans who invented Levi’s and have strong opinions about which shade of denim is acceptable and which parts of the body denim belongs on (i.e., not wrists).
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 16 May 2024
  • Who is to judge the winner in a contest that must invent itself over and over?
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 31 July 2023
  • And in 2009, the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin and the blockchain.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 5 June 2023
  • Then in 1971, two years after the game was invented, one was found.
    — Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, this hot sauce's claim to fame is that it was used to invent Buffalo wings.
    — Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But that will not stop Trump from inventing one from scratch.
    — Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • Howland didn’t invent valentines or bring them to the United States.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The British engineer James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2023
  • That gave the space agency 11 years to invent and build and launch the ships—to say nothing of securing approval and funding for them in the first place.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 12 June 2024
  • Lore has it that the creation is a good three decades old, invented by a bagel purveyor named Hadley Longe.
    — J. J. Goode, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The first chips, invented in the late 1950s, held only a handful of transistors.
    — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, Bell Labs went on to invent the practical solar cell in the 1950s.
    — Nicholas Wyman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The relationship between a writer and A.I. is akin to that of a painter and a camera, when the tool was first invented.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 5 June 2023
  • So many core Twitter features were invented by the users.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Nancy Johnson invented the first ice cream freezer in the 1840s.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 17 June 2024
  • It was invented in 1988 at a street cart specializing in bagels with cream cheese.
    — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • His novels often make fun of genres, or else invent them.
    — Maya Binyam, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Netflix didn’t invent many of these changes roiling the industry.
    — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • The people behind those hits got a cut, which is why the duo who invented Friends probably haven’t flown commercial since the 1990s.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2023
  • The implication, of course, was that rock & roll was invented by — Marty McFly.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • If Steve Garvey didn’t exist, Adam Schiff would have to invent him — and, indeed, the congressman is busy doing just that.
    — Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Germany invented the automobile and France invented automobile racing.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 2 July 2024

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