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.
  • She invented a clever excuse.
  • Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.
  • 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
  • Facebook, the iPhone and YouTube had not yet been invented.
    — USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • But that will not stop Trump from inventing one from scratch.
    — Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • Even then, had to quasi-invent a space to finally park.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Here, once again the creative sorts of people have free reign to invent this, that and the other option.
    — Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • In the end we shall be forced to invent something that will be able to think faster than the AI, and that will keep it under control.
    — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
  • Howland didn’t invent valentines or bring them to the United States.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Ironically, the one that proved a bridge too far for some was the one Cameron did not invent: The name of the rare metal that served as the film’s MacGuffin.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The Swiss were the first to invent the quartz movement that the Japanese later used to redefine the watch industry in the 1970s.
    — Andrew Binns, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The British engineer James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2023
  • Dickens invented the very kind of book that O’Hagan has written.
    — Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • It’s designed to be very easy to modify, so that users can quickly invent and test out all kinds of parts.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Bell Labs went on to invent the practical solar cell in the 1950s.
    — Nicholas Wyman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Twitter has gotten old, in most senses of that word, and even its new owner Elon Musk can’t invent a way to turn back the clock.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Trump didn’t invent the ideology that now goes by his name.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Dylan didn’t merely invent the job of the singer-songwriter.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • But brands have invented a whole new, lucrative category of toddler foods, from pouches and teething crackers to bars and puffs, Fleming-Milici said.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Stephanie Collie invented this look, thus providing one of the clearest examples of how costume design can transcend a movie and become something more.
    — Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024

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