INVEST in a Sentence

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1. Huge sums have been invested in this project.
2. The money has been invested for a fixed period.
3. He invested his lawyer with complete power to act for him.
4. A fixed proportion of the fund is invested in British firms.
5. She could easily sell the mills and invest the money for Wade and Ella.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVEST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
invest
 v.  put clothe on, as with office or authority; place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; endow; lay out money or capital in business
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  The insult had occurred on a day when Pitty wished to draw five hundred dollars from her estate, of which he was trustee, to invest in a non-existent gold mine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  She could easily sell the mills and invest the money for Wade and Ella.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
3  I wanted money, and I've got more than I know how to invest; and now the money doesn't seem to be of any account unless I can spend it on the right woman.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
4  That institution is reserved for men like Kennicott who, after devoting fifty years to "putting aside a stake," incontinently invest the stake in spurious oil-stocks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks bringing in good interest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
6  Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
7  I had often heard him complain of the disproportion of his rank with his fortune; and I advised him to invest all he had in an annuity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
8  He never omitted the ceremony afterwards, and the gravity and quiescence with which I underwent it, seemed to invest it for him with a certain charm.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  When they were already old they had lost the money, which they had invested in an elevator.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
11  The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
12  A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
13  Boys, they say the rest of his property is invested in looking-glasses.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
14  We must needs inquire then on what principle the Sovereign is originally invested with that right.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.
15  The mincer now stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 95. The Cassock.
Example Sentence: (162 in 11 pages)
16  Businesses can also use this opportunity to invest in alternate, perhaps more efficient, energy sources - which will help our economy in the long-run.
17  As small business proprietors, most doctors have had little incentive to invest in automation efforts.
18  You had better let me invest it along with your six thousand, because if you take it you'll spend it.
19  The group did invest in sleek Apple computers and other technology to help them compete against larger ad agencies.
20  The resolution states that CPS Energy should invest further in nuclear energy.
21  With that leanness, the new company is expected to invest in sprucing up its healthful image.
22  We invested the money in a high-interest bank account.
23  He invested his lawyer with complete power to act for him.
24  The company has invested a great deal of time and effort in setting up new training schemes.
25  But many leaders have invested their ill-gotten gains in several different countries.
26  A fixed proportion of the fund is invested in British firms.
27  Huge sums have been invested in this project.
28  The interview was broadcast on the same day he was invested as President.
29  Our government has invested the minister for trade with all the necessary powers to resolve the dispute.
30  The money has been invested for a fixed period.