How to Use invention in a Sentence

invention

noun

• Parts of the movie were accurate, but much of it was invention.
• The stories he told about his military service were just inventions.
• The light bulb was one of the most important inventions of the 19th century.
• His explanation was pure invention.
• John Warnock in 1989, three years before the invention of the PDF.
  — CBS News, 21 Aug. 2023
• The sound of Penelope’s voice, of course, is open to invention.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The inventions will keep coming, whether the unions like it or not.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Instead, Frances is a new invention, sailing in on the breeze from the past to the present.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 28 June 2024
• The history of the Olympic truce goes back much further than the 1990s, all the way to the Games’ invention.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
• The mullet — short on the sides, long in the back — is not an Australian invention.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• Take the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• But that wasn’t the end of spaceflight for the Wright brothers’ invention.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• The writing has been on this wall since the invention of writing.
  — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 9 Mar. 2023
• The invention of the atom bomb has shaped both history and ecosystems across the globe.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023
• If this is the last invention of humankind, then all bets are off.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• The arm is one of the most ergonomic inventions on the market.
  — Omaid Homayun, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• The hope was to make V.R. a place for spontaneous invention.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
• That bad idea was to build a show around the 15th-century invention of the printing press.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
• Herron loves Ho, the spy writer lost in a world of his own invention.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• This is one of the best travel inventions in recent years!
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
• Tiwari filed for a U.S. patent for his invention in 2021.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• The invention of agriculture is the first, and the great enrichment since 1800 is the second.
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• Based on true events and kick-starting in the 1960s, the show chronicles the invention of the electric curler in Denmark.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• The world knows her great achievement with the invention of Liquid Paper, but that’s about it.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
• But this time, the energy and invention of the previous scene is nowhere to be found.
  — Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
• The first ice cream trucks The invention of the ice cream truck has been largely attributed to Good Humor.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 17 June 2024
• What in most games is a chore here is simply an act of visual invention.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• And since the invention of the electric toaster back in 1906, there couldn't be a more convenient food.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
• All of it would be recorded by this invention call a cellphone.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2023
• Everyone else called her Mad, an invention of her father, who loved nicknames.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024