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How to use invite in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Invite means to ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. Example: “We invited our friends round for dinner.”

Examples of invite by meaning

verbTo ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

  • We invited our friends round for dinner.

verbTo request formally.

  • I invite you all to be seated.
  • I always invite criticism of my essays.

verbTo encourage.

  • Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
  • The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.1902, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's Second State of the Union Address
  • "Blindness invites confidence," replied Carrados.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

More sentences with invite

  • The one male audience member at the concert is invited on stage.From the entry one
  • We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it.From the entry crash
  • Randal is less welcome than Rachel but as her spouse we should invite them both.From the entry less
  • You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.From the entry marriage
  • The pronoun in "We're going to a party later, but you aren't invited" is an exclusive "we".From the entry exclusive
  • I've invited three hundred people to my wedding. — You've invited how many?From the entry how many
  • The party at the weekend was such a hoot! Thanks for the invite.From the entry hoot
  • Besides José, I'll invite Jay and Renée, the three of them.From the entry besides
  • I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.From the entry snub
  • She felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him.From the entry justify
  • The organizers didn’t think to invite even a single POC to speak.From the entry POC
  • You are cordially invited to dinner with His Excellency the President. Dress: White Tie.From the entry white tie
  • He thoughtlessly invited her to come jogging, as he knew she hated exercise.From the entry thoughtlessly
  • Dave got wasted drunk and wrecked shop, which is why he's not invited tonight.From the entry wreck shop
  • My friends invited me out on Saturday, but instead I stayed in and watched television.From the entry stay in
  • I invited Lily to join us, but horror films don't float her boat.From the entry float someone's boat
  • I kicked the tires and then the salesperson invited me to take the car for a spin.From the entry take for a spin
  • My colleague and yourself are invited to the conference.From the entry yourself
  • Sorry, you're not invited to our party.From the entry our
  • I was invited to the masquerade at their home.From the entry masquerade
  • He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.From the entry hurt
  • We invite you to state your opinions about the suggestions.From the entry opinion
  • There was a bar of tungsten on the bench, and they were invited to feel how heavy it was.From the entry tungsten
  • I'd like to invite you all to my birthday.From the entry birthday
  • He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.From the entry bar
  • We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.From the entry barbecue
  • The fraudsters convincingly spoofed a Microsoft webpage and then invited their victims to click various links found there.From the entry spoof
  • When you visit the museum, we invite you to make a donation of $10 if this will not be a hardship.From the entry hardship
  • As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date.From the entry attached
  • We invite you to listen in to our radio broadcast.From the entry listen in
  • Everyone is invited to our end-of-term wind-up party.From the entry wind-up
  • The invited guest was caught up in a family quarrel.From the entry caught up
  • The composer invited all his friends when they premiered the movie he orchestrated, we got to see it before anyone but the crew.From the entry premier
  • To keep costs down at our wedding, we only had family at the banquet, but invited all our friends to the afters.From the entry afters

Meaning of invite

  1. verb To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
  2. verb To request formally.
  3. verb To encourage.

Full definition of invite

Questions about invite in a sentence

How do you use invite in a sentence?
Invite is used as a verb and noun. For example: “We invited our friends round for dinner.”
What is a short sentence with invite?
“"Blindness invites confidence," replied Carrados.”
What does invite mean?
Invite means to ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: invite (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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