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
• Instead, Frances is a new invention, sailing in on the breeze from the past to the present.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 28 June 2024
• The history of the Olympic truce goes back much further than the 1990s, all the way to the Games’ invention.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
• The mullet — short on the sides, long in the back — is not an Australian invention.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• In fact, some might even call it the golden era for the clever invention.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 17 Oct. 2022
• Bird dawgs aren't the only invention from the sports bar chain this year.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2022
• Take the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• The Irish gangster seems to be an invention of the writers.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 11 June 2022
• The invention, the crowds, the concerts, made the six members of the group into celebrities.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2022
• But that wasn’t the end of spaceflight for the Wright brothers’ invention.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• The writing has been on this wall since the invention of writing.
  — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 9 Mar. 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 arm is one of the most ergonomic inventions on the market.
  — Omaid Homayun, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• Surely the invention of the wheel and the taming of fire are also contenders for that prize.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• 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
• And though the invention has evolved and improved, the goal remains the same – to provide people with peace of mind.
  — Lauren Carpenter, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
• Herron loves Ho, the spy writer lost in a world of his own invention.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• Laurent’s invention came at a time when most flutes were made of wood or ivory.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
• The crabby scallop is kind of this invention of my own.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022
• This is one of the best travel inventions in recent years!
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
• The risk of Surrealistic cinema is that its main inventions are conceptual—creating the wildness on the page and merely executing it on the screen.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
• So, for example, how the invention of the automobile may have killed horse-and-buggy jobs and created jobs in factories manufacturing cars.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 28 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 16 Feb 2025