Example sentences for: invention

How can you use “invention” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As a precautionary measure I consulted the menu, and there my eye fell on the vermicelles . I explained to my companions that this must be pasta, a kind of Continental macaroni (in those days macaroni was about the only kind of pasta you ever saw in England, if we mercifully forget the incredible invention of spaghetti on toast).

  • We may also know something about how history was rewritten wholesale in the Soviet Union during those years--how the facts concerning the October Revolution were successively recast as key figures fell from favor, how the existence of Leon Trotsky was first reviled and then denied after he was forced into exile in 1927, how even such things as the invention of electric light were reattributed to Russians in the textbooks (an astonishing number of scientific breakthroughs were allegedly the work of one Popov).

  • But ever since mankind first took serious notice of bandwidth--ever since the invention of Morse code , that is--there hasn't been enough of it.

  • If the product included more new content or invention, fully integrated prototypes were frequently used to demonstrate that the design met requirements.

  • The '60s also saw the invention of art rock , which ranged from the minimalism of the Velvet Underground to the florid romanticism of Yes.


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