Example sentences for: inventor

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

  • , in 1940, he was the only child of a failed inventor and plumber who died when Charles was 11; Charles' mother taught piano and encouraged his interest in painting.

  • The word was clearly felt to be a low word and there remains the possibility that Norton's role was more that of a promoter than of an inventor, that there was an existing word, probably a regional dialect word, that he brought to the surface and to which he gave a new currency.

  • He was the inventor of the "no-party system"--"a more sophisticated version of the old one-party system that led Africa to shipwreck and plunder."

  • The NYT and USAT front the decision by Colt Manufacturing, a leading maker of handguns (and, the NYT points out in a nice historical touch, the inventor of the six-shooter), to abandon much of its retail handgun business.

  • The inventor of a new technology is always more motivated to see it through to widespread use than anyone else.


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