How to Use inventive in a Sentence

inventive

adjective
  • They have given their new company an inventive name.
  • Let the kids loose in one of the city's inventive playgrounds.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2023
  • One of the few blockbusters of the year is also one of the most inventive of the decade.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2021
  • There are, of course, inventive ways to break the rules.
    — Madeline Bilis, Architectural Digest, 26 July 2024
  • That’s not to say this inventive dessert doesn’t have a place in the world.
    — Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 4 June 2025
  • Swift is not the first star to don a timepiece in an inventive way.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The cocktail was a smash hit and opened the doors for all the inventive martinis of 2023.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
  • There’s less gore than usual, and the deaths aren’t even the most inventive.
    — Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Be inventive, take the initiative and strive to be the best.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The movie sucks you in with all the inventive ways Calvin tries to write away the issues of playing God.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
  • And where did the inventive farmer find the right spring for the innovation?
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The cocktail menu is fun and inventive, and the sake and Japanese whisky lists are strong.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • So this is an inventive way of pre-clearing them to fly.
    — Eric Rosen, Forbes, 24 May 2021
  • The result is the most inventive, chaotic and scariest film in the 28-movie history of the MCU.
    — cleveland, 3 May 2022
  • The Met Gala was full of gorgeous looks and inventive designs.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 May 2024
  • King Crimson, one of the most inventive bands of its time (Robert Fripp, best guitarist alive?
    — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 10 June 2021
  • What makes the show so inventive is how the tragedy plays against what should be a joyous occasion.
    — Town & Country, 12 July 2023
  • Point-blank, Severance was the most inventive show to come out this year.
    — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Many of the most inventive images were made in Germany.
    — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 17 July 2021
  • His features are known for their inventive use of music, with the soundtracks to Moulin Rouge!
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2023
  • This one is arguably the worst and doesn’t feel inventive anymore.
    — Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Was part of the fun, too, having Cassie be part of some of the more inventive parts of this season, like the dream sequence in the second episode, the play, things like that?
    — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • These inventive headbands take some of the strain off her ears and can make things more comfortable.
    — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Panadería Jiménez also has the best and most inventive selection of empanadas in the city.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 20 July 2022
  • This movie is just perfect: funny, smart, thrilling, and inventive in ways that not a lot of blockbusters were in this era.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Through the decades, the candy dispenser started to evolve and get more inventive with the characters and faces appearing at the top of the toy.
    — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Some have been pushed to take more inventive approaches to solve the staffing shortages.
    — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The brief window in between is the Pre-Code Talkies Era, a rich and inventive period in which the idea of just what a movie could and should be was in flux.
    — Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The film is a marvel, with a cornucopia of inventive gags and a story that captures the heartbreak and hilarity of growing up.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 26 June 2025
  • Georgia has emerged one of the more entertaining, cunning and inventive antiheroes of the 2020s.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025

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