Sentence examples for not invented for from inspiring English sources

"Writing was not invented for poetry and storytelling," Dr. Finkel concluded.

In the age of modern "vampotainment" – with Johnny Depp recently offering yet another vampire who many women (and men) would die for – we might forget that vampires were not invented for fun.

So the actuality of the "30-second interventions" for weight-loss study published in the Lancet isn't ground-breaking – little interventions for big problems was not invented for the trial.

If the younger Gnawi artists see champions of Andalusian music as haughty and Arab-centric, the cultural élite see Gnawa music as unsophisticated, a genre embellished — if not invented — for the culturally illiterate foreigner, for tourists looking for a "North African blues".

Paine was vehemently attacked in his own lifetime if the scurrilous biography was not invented for him it certainly attained something of an art form in his depiction.

But stories about second Great Depressions are not invented for people like Warren Buffett.

The catch is, clockwork wasn't invented for another 1,000 years and the mechanism – corroded, squashed, fragmented and incomplete – has puzzled scholars for a century.

But it also presents us with all sorts of responsibilities, like working, paying rent, buying food, and wearing real clothes – clothes with a waistline that weren't invented for small incontinent humans in nappies.

What's interesting is that the Microbus wasn't invented for romance and flower children.

Technology wasn't invented for technology's sake.

You can't say they weren't invented for this purpose, but then utilising one at 11 PM on a Saturday night probably isn't a great idea.