How to Use invention in a Sentence

invention

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  • 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.
  • Since the invention of radio, people have said that about every new medium.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Those matches essentially establish a direct link between the cylinder seal system and the invention of writing.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • That bad idea was to build a show around the 15th-century invention of the printing press.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Herron loves Ho, the spy writer lost in a world of his own invention.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • This is one of the best travel inventions in recent years!
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Tiwari filed for a U.S. patent for his invention in 2021.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The invention of agriculture is the first, and the great enrichment since 1800 is the second.
    — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • Based on true events and kick-starting in the 1960s, the show chronicles the invention of the electric curler in Denmark.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 19 Feb. 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
  • But this time, the energy and invention of the previous scene is nowhere to be found.
    — Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The first ice cream trucks The invention of the ice cream truck has been largely attributed to Good Humor.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 17 June 2024

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