Example sentences for: invention

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

  • Self's cleverest invention is probably the chimps' language: They convey words to each other by signing and touching each other's fur, and they add emotional inflection with grunts like euch-euch (irritable) and hooograa (friendly, inclusive).

  • "Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...

  • The proposed solution involves the invention (or rather prediction) of two different sorts of neurons in a particular layer of cortex.

  • For that matter, Socialist Realism was no monolithic invention of the Soviet state.

  • The effort on history says, "The best invention of the millennium is widely considered to be the printing press, which is obvious and right.


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