How to Use invent in a Sentence

invent

verb

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Meta is not the first company to invent words to describe its workforce.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2022
• So many core Twitter features were invented by the users.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024
• This drink was apparently invented in Val-de-Travers in Switzerland over two centuries ago.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
• Other academics were less incredulous, suggesting that the paper was a wild goose chase — a phrase itself invented by Shakespeare.
  — David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024