Sentence examples for if not invite from inspiring English sources

Critics of his stand said the mayor's comments, and the comments of others, seemed to excuse disobedience if not invite it.

Sadie's blunt remarks and frank unattractiveness seemed to permit, if not invite, unabashed inspection, and Perkus sometimes caught himself puzzling backward, attempting to visualize a woman onstage behind a drum kit at the Mudd Club.

Indeed, the circumstances of Mr. Swartz's case appear to allow, if not invite, heavy charging.

Written out, the line's goofy stubbornness and small-minded complacency is amusing enough, a southern stereotype to attract if not invite a Yankee critic's eyeroll.

If not, invite some friends to come along, or make contact with some people who are coming and make some friends!

It's easier than you'd think to check out your school's offerings – some organise food-tasting days, most are very receptive and proud of their food so happy to allow parents in and anyone who's interested can – and should – ask if not invited.

Devoting his working life to shocking the bourgeoisie, he whinged if not invited to soirées with local notables, hobnobbed with the entourage of that ultimate bourgeois, Napoleon III, and briefly became a National Guard lieutenant in a spasm of militant patriotism when the Prussians besieged Paris in 1870.

If there are themed festivities around the city — balls, cruises, the Greenwich Village parade — I'm there, in spirit if not by invite.

If not, I invite you to open your eyes, to pick up a book with a Muslim protagonist and challenge yourself.

If you're not invited, you still can go in.

"If I'm not invited, I'd be disappointed".