INVENTIVE in a Sentence
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165 example sentences for INVENTIVE, such as:
1. He invented a new method to make bread.
2. For I am naturally inventive, as you know.
3. These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive.
4. They invented a new method for making the grafts take.
5. The words heady woman were invented for the Parisienne.
2. For I am naturally inventive, as you know.
3. These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive.
4. They invented a new method for making the grafts take.
5. The words heady woman were invented for the Parisienne.
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Meanings and Examples of INVENTIVE
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inventive
a. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1 Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character.
2 But ere Cedric penetrated as far as the old hall in which he had himself been a prisoner, the inventive genius of Wamba had procured liberation for himself and his companion in adversity.
3 For I am naturally inventive, as you know.
4 These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5 D'Artagnan alone had discovered nothing--he, ordinarily the most inventive of the four; but it must be also said that the very name of Milady paralyzed him.
6 It seemed as if, could I but go back to the idea which had last entered my mind as I stood at the window, some inventive suggestion would rise for my relief.
7 Carol's family were self-sufficient in their inventive life, with Christmas a rite full of surprises and tenderness, and "dressing-up parties" spontaneous and joyously absurd.
8 Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus Christ.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
9 His sorrow was like those recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke.
10 If the system of ambush and traps had not already existed, they would have been invented there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
11 The words heady woman were invented for the Parisienne.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
12 To meet the needs of this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is slang.
13 Hucheloup had invented a capital thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, which he called carpes au gras.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
14 The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been invented as yet, at that epoch.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
15 I invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine.
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1 I think you continually outdo yourself in finding new and inventive means of providing filler.
2 From bent wood pendent lights to sculptural steel plant walls, their portfolio is chalk full of inventive and inspiring pieces.
3 He was amazingly inventive and resourceful, and played a major role in my career.
4 They were reinventing the powder which had been invented by Chinese people two hundred years ago.
5 Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
6 Desktop publishing is probably the best executive toy ever invented.
7 Gas lamps became obsolete when electric lighting was invented.
8 He invented a new method to make bread.
9 They invented a new method for making the grafts take.
10 He has invented a new method to reclaim valuable raw materials from industrial waste water.
11 Blaise Pascal invented the first digital calculator to help his father with his work collecting taxes.
12 To impress his friends, Tom invented apocryphal tales of his adventures in the big city.
13 Because of their success, she became a co-founder of R.G. Barry Corporation where she invented the world's first foam-soled, soft washable slipper.
14 Some of its inventions have been ludicrous: like an app that sold coins to use at laundromats; but others are world-beaters: microprocessor and smartphones all trace their lineage to the valley.
15 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.