Example Sentences

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Viktor and Rolf interrogate the tropes of fashion by inventively manipulating the tropes of fashion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

Chef Kirk Haworth impressed judges by "taking his classical training and inventively adapting it to a vegan diet", Michelin said.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025

They don’t gate-keep; rather they draw inventively from our motley American larder that spans fast food and chain restaurant nostalgia; regional, seasonal and cultural influences.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2024

No movies wielded a scalpel as fiercely or inventively as these two, though to wildly different ends.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023

But Browning, who, as I have said, repeated his theory, never repeated his examples: and Sordello is not only clearly varied from Aprile 168and the person in Pauline, but the variations themselves are inventively varied.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)