Definition: 1. To produce or design something that has not existed before. 2. Make up something artificial or untrue.
Use 'invent' in a sentence:
1. He had invented an imaginary son, in order to make up for his real son's failings.
2. I can see you're trying to invent something!
3. In the mid-80s, Wall Street turned to the quants—brainy financial engineers—to invent new ways to boost profits.
4. Scurrilous and untrue stories were being invented.
5. How did we ever invent "unnatural" numbers in the first place?
6. We can invent computers capable of processing ten million calculations per second.
7. Instead of trying to refine old formulas, they invent new ones.
8. Unfortunately, that plan seems unlikely to work ： we have yet to invent a firewall that is secure against ordinary humans, let alone super intelligent machines ．
9. Today technology has progressed to the point where it is possible to invent new building materials to suit the type of structure desired.
10. The U.S. needs the new companies that will invent them.
11. One of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences or invent them where they did not previously exist.
12. Writing had not been invented as yet.
13. Esperanto was invented as an auxiliary language.
14. Netflix didn't invent any new technology.
15. We are not to invent reasons for ignoring the poor.
16. Edison had a remarkable aptitude for inventing new things.
17. Don't invent rules.
18. Invented in 1951, the rotary engine is a revolutionary concept in internal combustion.
19. He is credited with inventing the first true helicopter.
20. I did not invent these problems.
21. Telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse in 1844.
22. He is said to have invented the sport of celebrity-watching.
23. I launched into the parable, embellishing the story with invented dialogue and extra details.
24. I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed to be fact as opposed to fiction, but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.
25. Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he quickly built his own device from an organ pipe and spectacle lenses.
26. His father had helped invent a whole new way of doing business.
27. Heritage and museum experts do not have to invent stories and recreate historical environments to attract their visitors: their assets are already in place.
28. Before silos were invented, cows gave less milk during winter because they had no green grass to eat.
29. So they proceeded to invent the verge-and-foliot escapement.
30. So they need to invent a new term.
31. He invented some story about a cousin.
32. He has invented innumerable excuses, told endless lies.
33. Scientists can't invent new minutes.
34. He didn't know when the telephone was invented.
35. The astronomical clock, invented by the Chinese scientist Su Song over 800 years ago, was the first of its kind in the world. It gave the correct time of the day and night, as well as the sunrise and the sunset.
36. Ben Franklin, one of America' s founding fathers, didn't just invent the lightning rod.
37. We did't invent a firewall that is secure against ordinary humans yet, let alone super intelligent machines.
38. They hadn't invented sequencers back in those days, had they?
39. The human brain grew bigger, and human beings began to invent more and more tools and machines.
40. Ben Franklin, one of America's founding fathers, didn't just invent the lightning rod.
41. Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.
42. The speculators did not invent the deficits.
43. What excuse did he invent this time?
44. I stood still, trying to invent a plausible excuse.
45. Many children invent an imaginary friend.
46. He invented the first electric clock.
47. He invented a new game, but it never really caught on.
48. Who invented the steam engine?
49. She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure.
50. A new technological marvel was invented at Cambridge University in England, the scanning electron microscope.
51. They invented some lamebrain scheme to get rich quick.
52. I learned that different inventors often invent similar things.
53. The company is credited with inventing the industrial robot.
