INVENTION in a Sentence

Learn INVENTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
165 example sentences for INVENTION, such as:
1. Necessity is the mother of invention.
2. The invention is a collective effort.
3. The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
4. Life is a hideous invention of I know not whom.
5. I will reap large profits from my new invention.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of INVENTION
invention
 n.  the creation of something in the mind
 n.  a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
2  But necessity, according to the ancient proverb, sharpens invention, and he muttered something under his cowl concerning the men in question being excommunicated outlaws both to church and to kingdom.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  The light, the food, the wine, set my invention to work.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  And then he bowed in a manner of his own invention and moved to go.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
5  My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
6  That is what dismayed me: the sense of some hitherto unsuspected power, through whose intervention my invention had vanished.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
7  "Little goose girl, who kept a hundred fat geese in the field," said Amy, when Sallie's invention gave out.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
8  Bingley of course returned with him to dinner; and in the evening Mrs. Bennet's invention was again at work to get every body away from him and her daughter.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 55
9  However it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
10  He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
11  Life is a hideous invention of I know not whom.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
12  The invention of this fable was attributed to the coachman.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
13  The invention is old, my friends, but it is perfectly new.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
14  The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as societies, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police invented mousetraps.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
15  But that the end of it, like the Rhine, was very insignificant, proved, in his opinion, the author's want of invention; he was without genius, etc.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
2  The invention of the computer was a milestone in the history of man.
3  He's been trying to determine if there is a market for his invention.
4  The invention is a collective effort.
5  The idea eventually led to the invention of the telephone.
6  The invention of the wheel was a milestone in the history of the world.
7  Necessity is the mother of invention.
8  This combination of cheese and apples is not an invention of the north of England.
9  The fundamental problem lies in their inability to distinguish between reality and invention.
10  He hopes a charge would not deter people from enjoying this great invention.
11  The object of invention is to provide a method for limiting the maximum pressure of a power-assisted steering system.
12  I will reap large profits from my new invention.
13  In light of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide a device and a method which can superficially incise prepared meat products .
14  The invention differs from many conventional fire proof thatch roof.
15  The invention of the personal computer proved a historic watershed, for it opened the way to today's Information Age.