Sentence examples for were invented to from inspiring English sources

The suburbs were invented to keep worry in check.

"Cornflakes were invented to prevent masturbation," Giles says.

You think they were invented to feed you well.

They were invented to prop open heart arteries after angioplasty cleared them of clogs.

Several rituals were invented to prevent more misery, and certain experts thereby gained considerable importance.

Could it be that winter resorts were invented to enable them to escape cultural overdose?

Many plastics were invented to imitate natural substances, like rubber, wood, bone, silk, hemp, or ivory.

("Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on," he said one night).

This is odd, because Noisettes are what billboards were invented to announce: improbably big entertainment.

Weapons like machine guns and shotguns were invented to keep pace.

These financial oddities were invented to exploit the regulatory fiction just mentioned.