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.
• Laurent’s invention came at a time when most flutes were made of wood or ivory.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
• The wild-haired, wild-eyed genius cackles and monologues about his new invention, his vision for changing the world.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
• The goal is to peel back the curtain on how things are made, perhaps motivating young creators to make their own inventions.
  — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
• Regardless, any movie that takes a real-life figure as its subject must grapple with what is truth and what is invention.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• Sanders’ latest attempt at re-invention remains a gamble.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• And there is plenty of invention as well, but an excess of energy and creativity at times makes the show feel long and overdone.
  — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
• Not a mythical wizard who prophesied these great inventions, but a guy who had friends and relationships.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
• But testimony from physicists showed that the blueprints were not at all for the technology in question, but for his own invention.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2022
• This whole sequence is lifted directly from the book with the exception of Alicent slicing Rhaenyra, a show invention.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 2 Oct. 2022
• PolitiFact examined some of the pages that regularly spread content touting Musk and his fake inventions.
  — Loreben Tuquero, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
• State Farm Center arena was bathed in red to commemorate his invention of the first visible light-emitting diode in 1962.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Take the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024