How to Use invent in a Sentence

invent

verb

• We found out that he had invented the stories he told us about his military service.
• She is credited with inventing a procedure that has helped to save thousands of lives.
• She invented a clever excuse.
• Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.
• Who is to judge the winner in a contest that must invent itself over and over?
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 31 July 2023
• And in 2009, the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin and the blockchain.
  — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 5 June 2023
• Then in 1971, two years after the game was invented, one was found.
  — Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• In fact, this hot sauce's claim to fame is that it was used to invent Buffalo wings.
  — Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2023
• Howland didn’t invent valentines or bring them to the United States.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
• The British engineer James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2023
• Lore has it that the creation is a good three decades old, invented by a bagel purveyor named Hadley Longe.
  — J. J. Goode, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The first chips, invented in the late 1950s, held only a handful of transistors.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Meanwhile, Bell Labs went on to invent the practical solar cell in the 1950s.
  — Nicholas Wyman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The relationship between a writer and A.I. is akin to that of a painter and a camera, when the tool was first invented.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 5 June 2023
• So many core Twitter features were invented by the users.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024
• His novels often make fun of genres, or else invent them.
  — Maya Binyam, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Netflix didn’t invent many of these changes roiling the industry.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• The people behind those hits got a cut, which is why the duo who invented Friends probably haven’t flown commercial since the 1990s.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2023
• The implication, of course, was that rock & roll was invented by — Marty McFly.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• If Steve Garvey didn’t exist, Adam Schiff would have to invent him — and, indeed, the congressman is busy doing just that.
  — Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
• The employer is not under any obligation to invent needs for the employee to fill.
  — Karla L. Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
• Second, who invented this solution, and who will be telling your husband what to say?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• Another interesting thing is that this album came out right around the time the Walkman was invented, in the late ’70s.
  — Pitchfork, 11 Jan. 2024
• Ijaz: The clear path was to invent a dual-chemistry battery where the traction LFP battery is for every day, with the range extender for long trips.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Jan. 2024
• Bernstein did not invent the concept of teaching kids in a theater about classical music and how to love it.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
• The game was invented in the 1980s by a toymaker and cartoonist named Jeff Knurek, according to Roundnet.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• So far, liberal politicians and their P.R. teams haven’t seen fit to either recycle these barbs or invent new ones.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• Although the Dutch invented it, peacoats made their way into the British navy and eventually across the pond to America.
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
• And no, this isn’t a bro-science term invented to excuse an obsession with biceps curls.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 1 May 2023
• The goal was to avoid any copyright claims from scraping data and instead invent a data set on which to train their defamation detector.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024