Example sentences for: inventive

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

  • Perhaps they'd watched Michael Crichton's inventive fiction one too many times, he suggests.

  • 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.

  • French haute couture has been famous for achieving this combination for 140 years, solidly backed up by visibly inventive tailoring and visibly exquisite fabrics and craftsmanship.

  • DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.

  • There's a Dick Morris-1995 flavor to the inventive punishments applied to absent fathers, the public enemies who have no friends.


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