How to Use inventive in a Sentence

inventive

adjective
  • They have given their new company an inventive name.
  • Give him props for being both soulful and inventive here.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Panadería Jiménez also has the best and most inventive selection of empanadas in the city.
    Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 20 July 2022
  • Your subconscious dreaming mind is, by nature, more inventive.
    David G. Allan, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Until someone invents smell-o-vision, fragrance ads must rely on inventive ways to woo consumers through sight and sound.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The two are on the run as a mysterious force is causing people to off themselves in disturbingly inventive ways.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2022
  • That’s especially true on Trinh Nguyen’s inventive dessert menu.
    Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The reveal—why Piranesi is in the house, who his compatriots are, why his memory is so hazy—is wildly inventive.
    The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • In fiction, some authors find inventive ways to highlight the alienation frequently found in the contemporary office.
    Elise Hannum, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
  • Americans have an inventive Massachusetts inn owner back in the late 1930s to thank for this yummy treat.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • With Mercury entering your birth sign on the 4th, your brain will be working overtime to plan and prepare but whatever comes up near the 7th will challenge you to be highly inventive.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Let the kids loose in one of the city's inventive playgrounds.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2023
  • There are, of course, inventive ways to break the rules.
    Madeline Bilis, Architectural Digest, 26 July 2024
  • Swift is not the first star to don a timepiece in an inventive way.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The cocktail was a smash hit and opened the doors for all the inventive martinis of 2023.
    The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Be inventive, take the initiative and strive to be the best.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The movie sucks you in with all the inventive ways Calvin tries to write away the issues of playing God.
    Adrianna Freedman, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
  • And where did the inventive farmer find the right spring for the innovation?
    Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The cocktail menu is fun and inventive, and the sake and Japanese whisky lists are strong.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The Met Gala was full of gorgeous looks and inventive designs.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 May 2024
  • What makes the show so inventive is how the tragedy plays against what should be a joyous occasion.
    Town & Country, 12 July 2023
  • Point-blank, Severance was the most inventive show to come out this year.
    Marah Eakin, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
  • His features are known for their inventive use of music, with the soundtracks to Moulin Rouge!
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2023
  • These inventive headbands take some of the strain off her ears and can make things more comfortable.
    Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Through the decades, the candy dispenser started to evolve and get more inventive with the characters and faces appearing at the top of the toy.
    Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Some have been pushed to take more inventive approaches to solve the staffing shortages.
    New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • These Halloween costume ideas are inventive, easy, and won't take a ton of time or money to make.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But that has not stopped Beck from being inventive about use cases for the small rocket.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 May 2023
  • For those looking for the most inventive burgers, PVBC is a standby.
    Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023
  • There have been some inventive twists on the basic method for DNA storage in recent years.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022

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