Example sentences for: inventive

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

  • Cast her as a flaky ex-radical on the run from the government in Running on Empty , and she comes off as the ultimate cool mother--competent under pressure, endlessly inventive, a fountain of love.

  • False Creek has given its name to a charming neighborhood of architecturally inventive houses set around garden-courtyards and terraces.

  • When you look at the early American modernists such as Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, John Marin, and Joseph Stella, you see inventive and delightful things.

  • Roger Ebert calls it a "splendid comic thriller" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). The chases are inventive (skis, powerboats), the double-entendres apt (secretary asks Bond if he'd like to "check her figures"), the women beautiful (Denise Richards and Sophie Marceau), and the plot irrelevant (something about oil pipelines).

  • Few films have ever offered so inspired a blend of sentimentality, Grand Guignol horror, and sophisticated camp, or such deliriously inventive laboratory bric-a-brac.


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