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Sentences starting with invent

Invent them! [6]

Sentences ending with invent

Tell him that you heard her voice out in the street, and with the help of a worthy old man--that am I--rescued her from any peril you may invent. [10]
It is plain that there was a sort of conspiracy against him almost from the start--a conspiracy to freight him up with all the strange extravagances those people's decayed brains could invent. [5]
The closet door slammed all night, and defied every fastening we could invent. [5]
If Judge Douglas did not invent this kind of popular sovereignty, let us pursue the inquiry and find out what kind he did invent. [7]

Short sentences using invent

Did Judge Douglas invent this? [7]
I did not invent them. [5]

More example sentences with the word invent in them

That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. [6]
Another said there was a vast fortune waiting for the genius who should invent a compass that would not be affected by the local influences of an iron ship. [5]
All through his wanderings during a whole year he kept his injury in mind, and gave all his leisure moments to trying to invent a compensating satisfaction for it. [5]
Shall invent a violent game to go with it. [5]
Even turn it upon him,--the sharp point against him, and gaff him through,--he will still cling to it till he can invent some new dodge to take the place of it. [7]
He could not understand it, neither was he able to invent any remarks about it that could damage it or disturb it. [5]
There is a tradition (attributed to John Phenix [It has been purloined by fifty different scribblers who were too poor to invent a fancy but not ashamed to steal one.--M. [5]
The anxiety was to invent and launch something that should float on to the generations to come, and carry the name of the builder and the fame of his generation. [4]
She was trying to invent a saving plan. [5]
It is impossible to conceive of any holiday that could take its place, nor indeed would it seem that human wit could invent another so adapted to humanity. [4]
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing--and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. [5]
I'll think the thing over--I'll invent a plan that'll fix it. [5]
Whether to tell the story of men that have lived and of events that have happened, or to create the characters and invent the incidents of an imaginary tale be the higher task, we need not stop to discuss. [6]
He didn't invent the law; it is merely his business to obey it and keep still; join the universal conspiracy and keep so still that he shall deceive his fellow-conspirators into imagining that he doesn't know that the law exists. [5]
The Lord made the day, and he made the night; but he didn't invent the hours, and he didn't distribute them around. [5]
I now saw that I must invent some other protection. [5]
Several observers have stated that monkeys certainly dislike being laughed at; and they sometimes invent imaginary offences. [1]
But you invent some worthless thing to amuse yourself with, and would throw it away if let alone, and all of a sudden the whole world makes a snatch for it and out crops a fortune. [5]
He could invent some way to win the case; for he had said it would be won, so he necessarily knew how it could be done. [5]
One could invent quicker ways, and fully as sure ones; but none that would be as picturesque as this; none that could be made so dramatic. [5]
The writer must put in color, and idealize the scene and the people engaged in it, he must invent dramatic circumstances and positions and language, so as to produce a "picture. [4]
It is a pleasure to come across such a hero as this in real life, and not have to invent him, as the saying is, out of the whole cloth. [4]
It is not only the most picturesque city in the world, rich in all that art can invent to please the eye, but how calm it is! [4]
The several clauses of his motion were loudly applauded by these allies, and as loudly disapplauded--if I may invent a word--by such of the Opposition as could hear his voice. [5]
To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find the way to make the lightnings carry your messages. [5]
You do not need to invent any picturesquenesses; whatever you want in that line he can furnish you; and they will not be fancies and doubtful, but realities and authentic. [5]
In that case Mrs. Eddy did not invent the tune, she only entered it on paper. [5]
He was a most consummate actor, with this difference from other actors, that he was the first to know the thoughts and invent the fancies to which his voice and action gave the color of life. [5]
They invent illegal modes of expenditure; and what do they or their wives care about the law? [4]
It takes fifty men a hundred years to invent it. [5]
Why, I could make anything a body wanted--anything in the world, it didn't make any difference what; and if there wasn't any quick new-fangled way to make a thing, I could invent one--and do it as easy as rolling off a log. [5]
I meant to keep that command fair and clean, and I would have done it if I had been in the habit of obeying instructions, but I can't invent a new process in life right away. [5]
They invent or keep in circulation those conversational blank checks or counters just spoken of, which intellectual capitalists may sometimes find it worth their while to borrow of them. [6]
He was too jaded with the din of pounds, shillings, and pence to permit his pen to invent facts or to adorn realities. [4]
You didn't invent it out of your own head, did you? [5]
The writer of it had not troubled himself to invent probabilities, but had borrowed his scenery from the Arabian Nights and his lunar inhabitants from Peter Wilkins. [6]
For the superdreadnought is reposing behind the nets, the battle-cruiser ignominiously laying mines; and for the present at least, until some wizard shall invent a more effective method of annihilation, victory over Germany depends primarily on the airplane and the destroyer. [9]
You did not invent that--you got it from outside, from talking and teaching. [5]
Who ever did invent that law? [5]
But I didn't invent it myself. [2]
One meaning of invent is discover. [5]
No doubt they'll invent a new way to be born before they've finished. [11]
Tracy alone could have told, the others couldn't even invent a theory. [5]
You see I have an ineradicable faith in your unsteadfastness,--but mind you, I didn't invent that faith, you conferred it on me yourself. [5]
I see I'd got to invent a bar, or forget the name of the one we got aground on--or--Now I struck an idea, and fetched it out: "It warn't the grounding--that didn't keep us back but a little. [5]
Including our own; for with all our brains we cannot invent a religion and market it. [5]
Without making this fellow a criminal, I believe I will invent a name and a character for him calculated to disenchant her. [5]
With my lecture experience in mind I was aware that I could invent some way out of the trouble with pictures, but I hoped a way could be found which would let them romp in the open air while they learned the kings. [5]
If you haven't ever tried to invent an indoor historical game, don't. [5]
But no, those creatures were only checked, not checkmated; they could invent some more delays. [5]
The devil himself could not invent any machine calculated to act on the nerves of a horse like this. [4]
They discover and construct and design and invent and organize and give opportunities. [11]
It was the best explanation they could invent at such short notice. [5]
Whatever the doctor believed, he believed with all his heart, and would fight for it whenever he got the chance; and if the intervals between chances grew to be irksomely wide, he would invent ways of shortening them himself. [5]
If this language be blasphemous, I did not invent the blasphemy, I am merely stating a fact. [5]
They never invent any thing, never learn any thing. [5]
Gibbons, and Hippocratus, and Sarcophagus, and all them old ancient philosophers was down on poets--" "Doctor," I said, "you are going to invent authorities now and I'll leave you, too. [5]
He would invent an excuse, and make his way behind. [11]
I had long ago learned what that meant; viz., he was trying to invent a trap for me. [5]
He was not able to invent the triflingest little thing with it. [5]
You can invent a human being that in certain aspects of humanity will answer every purpose for which your invention was intended. [6]
The Major asked: 'Did you invent the idea? [5]

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