How to Use inventory in a Sentence

inventory

1 of 2 noun

• The dealer keeps a large inventory of used cars and trucks.
• How can a small business afford to keep so much inventory?
• Inventories at both stores were low.
• We made an inventory of the library's collection.
• We'll be doing inventory on the collection soon.
• The main goal isn't to catch fakes but to move inventory.
  — Padmakumar Nair, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• Take inventory of your life this year.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
• The same money that used to fund one pile of inventory now funds two.
  — Izzy Rosenzweig, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• At the time, demand was very high and inventory was low.
  — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026
• Take inventory of what the strongest bonds in your life are built on and where the voids are.
  — Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• Long lead times force brands to over-commit on inventory.
  — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
• The inventory screen is the same as the anime.
  — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
• Buyers are tired of high rates and scarce inventory.
  — Sara B. Hansen, Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2026
• Take inventory of your life this year, and let go of people, places and things that have held you back.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 30 May 2026
• So when that happens, one needs to take inventory.
  — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
• No new inventory for hotels has been added.
  — Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 23 Sep. 2025
• There was a very short window when vendors could go and pick up their inventory.
  — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2026
• Take inventory of your outdoor gear and get rid of anything that no longer works.
  — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
• One of the biggest tipoffs is home inventory.
  — Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 27 Apr. 2026
• That means more cash is tied up in inventory for longer periods.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
• Because this is the last year of a nine-year cycle, take inventory.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 10 July 2026
• March saw one of the largest drawdowns on global oil inventories on record.
  — Chloé Farand, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
• Still, the inventory of available homes in the area has decreased over the past year.
  — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
• But the inventories that have worked like shock absorbers are dwindling, and fast.
  — David Goldman, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
• But that is still far short of Iran’s prewar drone inventory.
  — Mikhail Alexseev, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
• Our inventories are really fresh and in line with sales.
  — David Moin, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
• These factors have led to a surge in housing inventory and a slowdown in price growth.
  — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
• Prices and inventory are subject to change.
  — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
• This has often led to delays and inventory pile-ups.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
• Bramlett has marked down all his inventory.
  — Olivia Young, CBS News, 2 May 2026

inventory

2 of 2 verb

• We'll be inventorying the collection soon.
• But to protect its species, researchers need to inventory them.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 26 Apr. 2018
• Real estate has been challenging for many buyers this year, with home prices up sharply and inventory at record low levels.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2021
• Nonprofits need space to store goods, staff to sort and inventory them and vehicles to distribute them.
  — Bree Carriglio, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
• This required a tremendous amount of inventorying and record keeping.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2020
• Did a quick, cursory camp erect and went to work inventorying the national forest.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Oct. 2017
• Those that wait will inherit a shadow estate nobody can inventory, let alone migrate.
  — Song Bac Toh, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• Now Murphy will be given access to the firm’s offices to inventory its files and take control of its bank accounts.
  — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2023
• Homeowners should inventory possessions and store the list outside the home.
  — Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
• At the time, many museums had not yet fulfilled the law’s requirement to inventory their collections.
  — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 20 July 2023
• The city has yet to inventory damage to grave markers, many of which mark the resting place of some of the state’s earliest emigrant settlers.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
• Laura Hancock reports defense teams would look at the data, inventory their assets and act.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2020
• After 45 days, the storage company staff can inventory the contents while standing at the open door.
  — oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2020
• Some institutions have yet to inventory all the human remains and burial objects in their care as mandated by the law.
  — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• There were federal agents all over the house inventorying everything.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 21 June 2018
• Planners will inventory greenhouse-gas emissions and recommend ways to reduce them.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
• And the Utah Food Bank has to inventory and process donations before they can be sent to one of its partner agencies.
  — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
• Rather than pausing to plan and inventory her skills and experiences, her knee-jerk reaction was to act — desperately and fast.
  — Palena Neale, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Volunteers are needed to help sort inventory and go on mission trips, according to Victor.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
• The museum also wants to purchase a new computer to inventory the collection and secure a new space for the museum.
  — Aaron Mudd, The Courier-Journal, 27 Jan. 2022
• It was reported that the defendant would order parts and then not inventory them for a particular vehicle in the county’s fleet.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 20 Sep. 2019
• The survey will inventory buildings, structures, sites and objects, generally at least 40 years old, staff said.
  — David Ibata, ajc, 30 Jan. 2020
• Amazon officials said the surveillance is needed to keep employees and inventory safe.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• Puritans, for instance, used diaries to inventory their sins and, ideally, to hasten a moral awakening.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2020
• He is required to move the property into a storage facility and inventory the items within five days of the relocation.
  — Dana Feldman, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
• Packing up and inventorying all of the family’s belongings was left to the staff at Fort Sam Houston and their wives.
  — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 4 Apr. 2020
• In fact, researchers are still trying to get a handle on inventorying phage in various microbial communities—like that of the bladder.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2018
• Once the possessions were in a storage facility, Homer had to inventory everything within five days.
  — Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• The vote resulted from a new state law requiring police and sheriff's departments to inventory military-grade equipment and seek approval for their use.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• Inheritances are contributing almost as much to inventory as new home construction.
  — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026