INVENTOR in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for INVENTOR, such as:

1. Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the telephone.
2. Franklin was a scientist, an inventor, and a statesman.
3. A legendary artist and inventor, builder of the Labyrinth.
4. The Nobel Medal bears the image of the great Swedish inventor.
5. Miles, Dr. Bell, the inventor of the Bell telephone, Bishop Vincent, and the Rev.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVENTOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inventor
 n.  someone who is the first to think of or make something
Classic Sentence:
1  He had invented a machine for the cleaning of the hemp, which, considering the education and circumstances of the inventor, displayed quite as much mechanical genius as Whitney's cotton-gin.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  He was a man loved and honoured by all who knew him; and in his youth was, I have heard, the inventor of a burnt rum punch, much patronised on Derby night.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  The founder of a sect or party, or an inventor, impresses us less when we know how or by what the way was prepared for his activity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
4  In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKE...
5  Miles, Dr. Bell, the inventor of the Bell telephone, Bishop Vincent, and the Rev.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
6  These gloomy inventors of expedients work rapidly when they are fighting against fatality.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
7  The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
Example Sentence:
1  Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the telephone.
2  A legendary artist and inventor, builder of the Labyrinth.
3  The Nobel Medal bears the image of the great Swedish inventor.
4  Franklin was a scientist, an inventor, and a statesman.