How to Use inventory in a Sentence

inventory

1 of 2 noun
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  • 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.
  • 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
  • That's where Amazon comes in, with a huge inventory of luggage pieces at all price points, and in all styles and sizes.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • One small south-facing glacier, the Stevens, no longer exists and has been removed from the park’s inventory of glaciers.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Would there be more money in the pot given the higher inventory of SEC game?
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 30 May 2023
  • On the plus side, inventory has returned to levels not seen since 2019.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2024
  • These items somehow turn up in the inventory system and then are sent back to customers.
    — Anne D'innocenzio, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The second number could’ve been assigned to the book when the city took over the library in 1892 and was updating its inventory, Kreiden said.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • Amazon’s inventory includes a whole slew of home and kitchen deals that will bring all the creature comforts from home to even the longest of travel days.
    — Brittany Vanderbill, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2023
  • The lack of inventory has been made worse by homeowners who are reluctant to sell and part with their low mortgage rates.
    — Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • One big factor behind the strengthening home prices and the decrease in sales volume -- down 23% in April from a year ago -- is the lack of housing inventory.
    — USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • The last time the city completed a tree inventory was in 1998, so information about the current state of its trees is lacking.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The metro area had 2.1 months of inventory in April, still far below the six months that a market balanced between buyers and sellers would have.
    — Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • The lack of inventory has also had the effect of lifting home construction.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 10 July 2023
  • At a store, the store inventory system uses the point-of-sale system to decrement units from inventory as they are sold.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • So, keep reading to find the 10 best deals available right now, but don’t wait too long because inventory is already running low.
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Aside from some great dress inventory, there are some other perks when shopping at Walmart.
    — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • That means inventory investment had less of a drag on GDP earlier this year.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 25 May 2023
  • Part of the agreement is that the money is secured to the company’s inventory, which was worth $462 million at last accounting.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But retailers are not expected to have a lot of excess inventory on hand this year.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The combination of low inventory and high costs has squeezed would-be homebuyers and sent home sales lower than last year.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There were glass jars of loose tobacco and an inventory of better brands of pipes, including those from British and French makers.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Many real estate agents already were struggling to get by in a housing market plagued by high prices and low inventory.
    — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The government had $34 billion of surplus material at the end of the war and sold it in large lots at auctions, where would-be store owners could buy a whole shop’s worth of inventory.
    — Charles W. McFarlane, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The sale prices for houses were down across the three county area while inventory remained relatively flat.
    — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In a market with higher inventory and lower interest rates, the strikes likely would have unleashed a rash of sales.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2023
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inventory

2 of 2 verb
  • We'll be inventorying the collection soon.
  • This isn’t the time to inventory and assess their misdeeds.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • But to protect its species, researchers need to inventory them.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 26 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In order to stay on track for a launch in the spring of 2013, our small team went through the sad and laborious task of inventorying the equipment to assess what was usable.
    — Curbed, 12 May 2023
  • Homeowners should inventory possessions and store the list outside the home.
    — Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
  • After 45 days, the storage company staff can inventory the contents while standing at the open door.
    — oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • At the time, many museums had not yet fulfilled the law’s requirement to inventory their collections.
    — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 20 July 2023
  • 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
  • Each Sunday, Stelter would go on air to inventory the outrages and discuss how the American news media should best cover them.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Laura Hancock reports defense teams would look at the data, inventory their assets and act.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2020
  • To the extent that the joint forecast helps inventory to be positioned in the right location and shipped using lower cost services, both FedEx and their customers can benefit.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 20 Jan. 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
  • Did a quick, cursory camp erect and went to work inventorying the national forest.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • This required a tremendous amount of inventorying and record keeping.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2020
  • The survey will inventory buildings, structures, sites and objects, generally at least 40 years old, staff said.
    — David Ibata, ajc, 30 Jan. 2020
  • 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 Truckee Police Department is inventorying the items in an attempt to locate the owners.
    — Cathy Locke, sacbee, 22 Aug. 2017
  • This period of higher rates can also prompt you to inventory all of your outstanding debt, verify the interest rates on the debt, and prioritize what should get paid off first.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Volunteers are needed to help sort inventory and go on mission trips, according to Victor.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Deputy editorial page editor James Dao, who pushed for publication of the piece, spent more than an hour on the phone with a Cotton aide that Thursday night to inventory alleged problems.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Every year, all L.A. Unified principals must inventory available space and justify what would not be available to a charter.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • There were federal agents all over the house inventorying everything.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • 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

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