Example sentences for: inventive

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

  • Zidane's "cooler," "more modern," and "more inventive" style of play is supposed to be a metaphor for France's blossoming multiculturalism, but he is reluctant to be a French hero, and French racism runs very deep.

  • Europeans love to condescend to Americans, but not until historian C. Vann Woodward put all the ways they do so into a book-- The Old World's New World , which came out in 1991--was it possible to see how inventive they've been about it over the past four centuries.

  • The New York Times Book Review declares it one of the year's "ten best books," and Joyce Carol Oates, writing in The New Yorker (for which Updike often writes), calls it "the most inventive of his myriad fiction.

  • The first of these is the possessive, the second represents the vowel of is . (The Joyce title is typical of the author's linguistically inventive but allusive style, and is actually a compound of two proper names: that of Finn MaCool, the Irish folk-hero, and Tim Finnegan, the hero of a music-hall ballad, who sprang to life in the middle of his own wake.)

  • The surprising premise of the current exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago is that much of Degas' most challenging and inventive work dates from the 1890s and the first years of this century.


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