Sentence examples for invented they from inspiring English sources

They can be taken from myth, from history, or from contemporary occurrence, or they can be pure invention (but even if they are invented, they are nonetheless constructed from the constant materials of real experience, no matter how fantastic the invention).

If invented, they were very like conviction.

Folklorists are fond of the idea that jokes don't get invented; they evolve.

If he had been, and phones had been invented, they would no doubt have been ringing.

Orthographies were not invented as art forms, but, once invented, they could serve aesthetic functions.

As soon as motion pictures were invented, they were applied in the recording of scientific phenomena.

I didn't invent them — they're everywhere. . . .

The system they invented, which they call the MicroColonyChip, consists of tiny wells on a plate.

They invented them.

They invented games or they sang songs.

Then they invented laughter so they could stand it.