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.
  • So, this is just an invention on his part.
    — ABC News, 17 May 2026
  • Stepovers, skills, invention, pace, two good feet and a lot of fun.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 May 2026
  • If this is the last invention of humankind, then all bets are off.
    — WIRED, 13 June 2023
  • The inventions will keep coming, whether the unions like it or not.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, some might even call it the golden era for the clever invention.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Some changes will be a return to the past, and some will be new inventions.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Bird dawgs aren't the only invention from the sports bar chain this year.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2022
  • Laurent’s invention came at a time when most flutes were made of wood or ivory.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
  • But invention can take one only so far.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • There's much invention in this vein to be explored.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2026
  • That sense of invention has defined his work.
    — Maria Williams, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Mom’s invention was called the Toobe.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • What in most games is a chore here is simply an act of visual invention.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • There is no grand re-invention, no legacy that can be spun, no way to make amends for the past.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • The writing has been on this wall since the invention of writing.
    — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The invention, though, comes from real life.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Ghosts and fairies and creatures of her own invention abounded in the pageant.
    — Daniella Walsh, Oc Register, 10 July 2025
  • The sound of Penelope’s voice, of course, is open to invention.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Was that new version based more on research or invention?
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Pain is the mother of invention.
    — Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Iranians could fill this open field with their own inventions.
    — Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • If Thomas, so to speak, is his mentee’s invention, the reverse may be true as well.
    — Giles Harvey, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • And still allows space for invention.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Herron loves Ho, the spy writer lost in a world of his own invention.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • This year, the Switch 2 also made our list of the year’s top inventions.
    — Merrill Fabry, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • An allied invention was the forming tube that compressed the yarns as the strand was made.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025

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