"invention" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The accordion is one of several European inventions of the early 19th century that used free reeds driven by a bellows.
- Art as we have generally understood it is a European invention barely two hundred years old.
- Nationhood is a relatively modern, mainly European, and at the time of its inception, revolutionary invention.
- Impaling tricks are not, however, a modern European invention, and some dervish orders performed such acts already in the 18th century.
- The idea of projecting a moving film onto a screen in front of an audience was a European invention.
- Hat-shaped helmets were not just a European invention.
- Rain umbrellas, heavily waxed in the days before water repellents, are thought to have been an 18th-century European invention.
- Firstly, in my view of course the question is wrong, because unfortunately fraud and corruption are not European inventions but occur at every level.
- Human rights are not a particular European invention.
- "Human rights were not a European invention," he said.
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