How to Use invalid in a Sentence

invalid

1 of 2 adjective

• In the first quarter, he was flagged for an invalid fair catch signal.
  — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Dec. 2025
• The tribe claimed the easement was invalid and that the pipeline must be shut down.
  — Mary Steurer, States Newsroom, 21 May 2026
• That was marked as an invalid element that earned her zero points.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 17 Feb. 2026
• The judge shut her down, saying that the document was invalid.
  — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
• The winners, with twenty-four per cent, were blank and invalid ballots.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
• Rather, the onus falls on the person whose driver’s license was deemed invalid to get a new one.
  — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2026
• He was later charged with driving with an invalid license.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2025
• Rather, the onus falls on the person whose driver’s license was deemed invalid to get a new one.
  — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
• The original trial was found to be invalid due to fraud and deceit.
  — USA Today, 24 June 2026
• Some numbers are landlines, some are invalid, and some can’t even receive text messages.
  — Phil Portman, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
• My friends had made the man sound an ancient mariner, an invalid widower, near dead from a lurid litany of injuries.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
• The creators are asking for the court to declare the new law invalid and to stop it from being enforced.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• The answer to that question could be the key to stopping an invalid debt from following you.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
• And that is legally invalid because arrests have to be based on probable cause.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
• Thousands listed invalid emails or phone numbers.
  — Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
• Now, both sides are appealing a judge’s ruling, which deemed two of the three petitions invalid.
  — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• The whole subsequent chain of transactions must be invalid.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2025
• Nothing can ruin a trip quite like showing up at the airport only to find out your passport is invalid.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022
• Two judges ruled the investigative tool invalid in a Chicago case.
  — Sidney Fussell, Wired, 4 Sep. 2020
• One instructed the caller to text a different number, which turned out to be invalid.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2026
• Beijing maintains the ruling is invalid.
  — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
• Instead, Bost argued the ballots were invalid.
  — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
• This fact doesn't necessarily mean the study results are invalid.
  — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 12 May 2026
• The resulting double loop became an invalid element and earned her no points.
  — CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
• An earlier version of the charter, signed by Kennedy in March, was deemed to be invalid.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 June 2026
• But Bird said Minnesota courts could do more to weed out invalid cases brought against patients.
  — Molly Castle Work, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2025
• State regulators had warned the city that its vote on the tax rate with only four commissioners would be invalid.
  — Joey Flechas, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
• The comedian stressed that not arguing about one point does not mean another is invalid.
  — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026
• The Clintons argue that the subpoenas are invalid.
  — Stephen Groves, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• The ruling makes those increases legally invalid.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026

invalid

2 of 2 noun

• Her husband has become an invalid.
• For 38 years the man had been an invalid.
  — Heidi Kleinsmith Salter, Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2025
• If a spouse fails to list all existing or pending equity grants, a court could later find the prenup invalid.
  — Julia Rodgers, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Health resorts were popular for invalids; year-long tropical sea cruises were not.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
• The novel — a satirical take on a fictional seaside resort hoping to attract England’s invalids — was never finished.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
• Such critique was partly a backlash against a sentimental, simplistic portrayal of Stevenson as the cheerful invalid.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
• Faulconer said the goal is to collect more than 30,000 signatures to ensure there are more than the 21,000 required after election officials declare some invalid.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026