Example sentences for: inventors

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

  • A huge package celebrates great inventors of the 20 th century, from household names such as the Wright brothers and Edward Teller to obscurities such as Philo Farnsworth, who invented the television at age 22 only to have RCA copy him, bully him, and reap the economic rewards.

  • The inventors of the television, the computer, and plastics make the list, as do more provocative choices: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jean Piaget . Newsweek 's cover chronicles "2000 Years of Jesus."

  • In a science-based business, ideas must flow freely between scientists and non-scientists in and out of the company—between researchers and marketers, say, or inventors and patent lawyers—to capitalize on discoveries and comply with regulations.

  • Applause for this morality tale about the inventors of the breast implant, who go from being star surgeons in the '70s to coke heads in the '80s.

  • The 40 profiles include the obvious choices--Frank Sinatra, Dr. Spock, Roy Rogers--but there are also stories about Otto Bettmann, who began his photo archive with two suitcases of photographs carted out of Nazi Germany; Martha Gellhorn, who covered wars from Spain in the 1930s to Patagonia in the 1980s; and the inventors of the Cuisinart, the La-Z-Boy, and bubble gum.


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