How to use invent in a sentence

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• I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.From the entry sheer
• He fears the dark, so he invented a longer-lasting light bulb.From the entry fears
• The company that invented the category remains a name brand to this day.From the entry name brand
• I tip my hat to whoever invented the root beer float.From the entry tip one's hat
• He was trying to invent a cleaner-burning gasoline.From the entry gasoline
• I'm thinking about inventing a new perpetual-motion machine.From the entry thinking
• The invented alibi didn't stand up long.From the entry invented
• Articulated buses were invented to improve the manoeuvrability of long buses capable of carrying a large number of passengers.From the entry manoeuvrability
• She enrolled at the university under false pretenses, giving an invented birth date and lying about her qualifications.From the entry false pretense
• What we need to invent is unmeltable ice-cream.From the entry unmeltable
• They say that the Gatling who invented Gatling guns imagined that they would reduce the scale of human warfare, poor old chap.From the entry Gatling gun
• Alicia hated the person who had invented pan and scan, since the heightened panning effect aggravated her nausea when watching action movies.From the entry pan and scan
• I have invented an antinoise raygun.From the entry antinoise
• They might be willing to admit, OK, yeah, if you invent superintelligence, things will probably be crazy.2025 April 11, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, “Big Tech’s Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama”, in The New York Times (Hard Fork podcast)…. From the entry cross that bridge when one comes to it
• She didn't need to invent YouTube's business plan from whole cloth.2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry whole cloth
• The outkeeper that Goldsmith Chandlee invented and developed had no equal.2022, Walt H. Sirene, American Backcountry Tall Clock, page 258. From the entry outkeeper
• Someone invented the chork, which is a mix of and looks like a fork and chopsticks together.2022, Fred Dervin, Sude, Mei Yuan, Interculturality Between East and West (page 20). From the entry chork
• Spotco and Sputlil invented RoBeats, which is also known as VSRG.2022 June 9, Benny Sagayarajan, “Funky Friday codes in Roblox: Free Emote and Points (June 2022)”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the…. From the entry VSRG
• Within hours this had been subjected to footballification and a defence of the PM had been invented.2022 June 6, John Nicholson, “Raging royalism is just another example of footballification: Do you support Queen FC?”, in Football 365. From the entry footballification
• So common, in fact, that the term ‘maranoia’ has been invented to describe it.2022, Sam Murphy, Run Your Best Marathon: Your trusted guide to training and racing better, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 200. From the entry maranoia
• Besides, the show has invented a doohickey that makes it possible for Dr.2019 December 8, Scott Tobias, “‘Watchmen’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: Chicken or Egg?”, in The New York Times. From the entry doohickey
• Both were mythomanes, inventing and exaggerating to embellish their own careers and pedigrees.2019, Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television, London: Macmillan, page 384. From the entry mythomane
• With this technological design, Nakamoto was able to invent digital scarcity.2018, Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry digital scarcity
• “Homo ludens has always had a talent for inventing jobs of the non-existential kind.2017 April 18, Philip Oltermann, quoting Jürgen Schmidhuber, “Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future: ‘They will pay as much attention to…. From the entry homo ludens
• Like the Davy Crockett, it is something that should have never been invented.2016, William Gurstelle, Ready the Cannons!: Build Wiffle Ball Launchers, Beverage Bottle Bazookas, Hydro Swivel Guns, and Other Artisanal…. From the entry leaf blower
• And even if there isn't, now that I've invented it, there is).2016, Sreenivasan, Much Below Average, →ISBN. From the entry wardrobe malfunctioner
• When you think about it, the Missoni stretch knit was athleisurewear before athleisurewear was invented.2015 September 28, Vanessa Friedman, “Armani and Missoni: In the Shadow of the Supermoon”, in New York Times. From the entry athleisurewear
• Someone else invented the term, not us; so, let's continue without the Judgy McJudgerson viewpoint, mmmkay?2015 June, Isaac Strack, Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework, 2nd edition, Birmingham: Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry Judgy McJudgerson
• The holophone was a cool communication device that Gadget had helped invent.2014, John Perritano, Madness of Captain Cyclops, page 24. From the entry holophone
• The resulting ascientific culture, which neither invents nor innovates, is trapped in underdevelopment.2013, Oswaldo de Rivero, The Myth of Development. From the entry ascientific
• Ate ‘em by the plateful while they were braining up to invent Western civilization.2013, Richard Cahill, “[Taking Care of Business] Waffle House of Pain”, in It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time for Lesbians and Abortionists…. From the entry waffley
• Making a virtue out of necessity, they invented a dynamics that would permanently confine quarks within particles.2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the…. From the entry quark
• Because modern life is chronophagous and resting necessary, we have invented hypnotherapy—apprenticeship while sleeping.2012 October 27, Stanislas Kraland, “The French already lacked sleep in 1962”, in The Huffington Post. From the entry chronophagous
• Okrand invented Klingon, a language he intentionally designed to sound “alien.”2012 October 31, Laura Wright, “UT Language Creation Society invites students to learn origins of newer languages”, in The Daily Texan…. From the entry conlanger
• A frightened word-lover might start to wish that the stuff had never been invented at all.2012, Mark Forsyth, Mark Forsyth's Gemel Edition. From the entry word lover
• But think about what happened when humans invented the technology of audio recording.2011, James Paul Gee, Elisabeth R. Hayes, Language and Learning in the Digital Age, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry copresent
• Since residential elevators are both very expensive and require extra space, the chairlift or inclinator was invented.2011, Norbert M. Lechner, Plumbing, Electricity, Acoustics: Sustainable Design Methods for Architecture, →ISBN. From the entry inclinator

Meaning of invent

1. verb To design a new process or mechanism.
2. verb To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
3. verb To come upon; to find; to discover.

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Questions about invent in a sentence

How do you use invent in a sentence?

Invent is used as a verb. For example: “After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.”

What is a short sentence with invent?

“I have invented an antinoise raygun.”

What does invent mean?

Invent means to design a new process or mechanism.