How to Use invention in a Sentence

invention

noun

• Parts of the movie were accurate, but much of it was invention.
• The stories he told about his military service were just inventions.
• The light bulb was one of the most important inventions of the 19th century.
• His explanation was pure invention.
• John Warnock in 1989, three years before the invention of the PDF.
  — CBS News, 21 Aug. 2023
• The sound of Penelope’s voice, of course, is open to invention.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The inventions will keep coming, whether the unions like it or not.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The mullet — short on the sides, long in the back — is not an Australian invention.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• Take the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• The invention of the atom bomb has shaped both history and ecosystems across the globe.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023
• If this is the last invention of humankind, then all bets are off.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• The hope was to make V.R. a place for spontaneous invention.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
• That bad idea was to build a show around the 15th-century invention of the printing press.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
• The world knows her great achievement with the invention of Liquid Paper, but that’s about it.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
• What in most games is a chore here is simply an act of visual invention.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• From the beginning, Rowland’s invention wasn’t just a doll but a brand.
  — Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• From his experience, the stranger the invention, the more popular the dessert.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• Biden noted that the invention of the printing press had effects that are still felt today.
  — John Harwood, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2023
• Being free is hard to do when there's been systems, people, and inventions all put in place to keep you in a certain place.
  — Bea Dixon, refinery29.com, 3 May 2023
• This is just one of those inventions that totally makes sense.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2024
• Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a history tracing back all the way to the mid-1800s.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
• But her version of Charlotte is a new invention, and fully her own.
  — Town & Country, 5 May 2023
• The bulk of the three-hour-plus movie, however, deals with the use of science to perfect a killing machine, and how said invention will change the course of history.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023
• In other words, there is no such thing as total invention.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Electric wheel-hub motors aren’t a new invention by any means.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• The invention of a volume renderer, a piece of software which has built-in water physics, was key.
  — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
• The lack of narrative invention is only a single issue in a film filled with them.
  — Vulture, 22 May 2023
• Propst came to regret his invention of the Action Office.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2023
• This invention changed the soundtrack of our lives forever.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024
• Also that year, Taft's Brewing Co. sought to change the game with its alcoholic dairy invention: boozgurt.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024