Sentence examples for could not invent from inspiring English sources

"Edison, for all his intelligence," Mr. Zhan said, "could not invent pearls or diamonds".

Everything about the tadpole shrimp, Triops cancriformis is so bizarre that you could not invent it.

For the New York Times he was a character "such as a novelist could not invent", while for Jefferson he was wild, "a savage at heart".

But Kubrick could not invent a plausible story in which a nuclear war is started by accident, so he ended up making a comedy, adapted from a novel, by a former R.A.F.

"You could not invent a more ridiculous health care system than the one we now have," said Igor Linok, the chief administrator of the Tomsk regional health insurance fund.

A startup could not invent a technology like the memristor: it took us five to 10 years to come up with the right combination of materials and everything else.

"I couldn't invent that combination of colors," he said of the rainbow palette of his gum "paintings".

He patented the invention in 1899, but never made any money out of it because he couldn't invent amplification.

"You couldn't invent a way to throw money down the drain that would work any better than this," he added.

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Waldman is a character Hollywood couldn't invent, who for 20 years has been using his charm and legal savvy to make connections, which he then pyramids into other connections.