Example sentences for: invented

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  • At nearby Mountain Top — 1,547 ft (472 m) above the bay, and higher than Drake’s Seat — you’ll find a sophisticated shopping mall and large bar area with almost non-stop daiquiris (they claim to have invented the banana daiquiri here).

  • In the sixteenth century, an Elizabethan courtier, Sir John Harrington, invented a water-closet with a flushing system and wrote a book on the subject entitled A Metamorphosis of Ajax, published in 1596.

  • They invented the cancan here in 1845 in a local dance hall, and in the 1920s, the quarter took over from Montmartre as the stamping ground of the city’s artistic colony, led by Picasso.

  • In A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess invented an entire dialect (Nadsat, a Russified version of English): I could sort of slooshy myself making special sort of shoms and govoreeting slovos like Dear dead idlewilds, rot not in variform guises and all that cal.

  • Invented by a Frenchman, the neon sign quickly became an Americanism.


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