INVEST in a Sentence

Learn INVEST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
214 example sentences for INVEST, such as:
1. They intend to invest directly in shares.
2. They intended to invest hugely in new technology.
3. They had the foresight to invest in new technology.
4. He doesn't invest in the arms industry on principle.
5. Now is a good time to invest in the property market.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of INVEST
invest
 v.  furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
 v.  give qualities or abilities to
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  The insult had occurred on a day when Pitty wished to draw five hundred dollars from her estate, of which he was trustee, to invest in a non-existent gold mine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  She could easily sell the mills and invest the money for Wade and Ella.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
3  I wanted money, and I've got more than I know how to invest; and now the money doesn't seem to be of any account unless I can spend it on the right woman.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
4  That institution is reserved for men like Kennicott who, after devoting fifty years to "putting aside a stake," incontinently invest the stake in spurious oil-stocks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks bringing in good interest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
6  Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
7  I had often heard him complain of the disproportion of his rank with his fortune; and I advised him to invest all he had in an annuity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
8  He never omitted the ceremony afterwards, and the gravity and quiescence with which I underwent it, seemed to invest it for him with a certain charm.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  When they were already old they had lost the money, which they had invested in an elevator.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
11  The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
12  A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
13  Boys, they say the rest of his property is invested in looking-glasses.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
14  We must needs inquire then on what principle the Sovereign is originally invested with that right.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.
15  The mincer now stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 95. The Cassock.
Example Sentence: (162 in 11 pages)
1  Jim's father wanted to invest his own father's fortune in the business, which unluckily went by the board.
2  They intend to invest directly in shares.
3  Tax incentives have been very effective in encouraging people to save and invest more of their income.
4  France and Germany invest far more per capita in public transport than Britain.
5  He doesn't invest in the arms industry on principle.
6  Now is a good time to invest in the property market.
7  People put up their homes as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.
8  They are unwilling to invest any more money in the project.
9  Frankly speaking, I don't think it any good to invest in real estate.
10  It's very short-sighted of the government not to invest in technological research.
11  You can, if you choose, invest your money in the stock market.
12  They had the foresight to invest in new technology.
13  They intended to invest hugely in new technology.
14  I've got a few thousand dollars I'm looking to invest.
15  Without a modern, robust copyright regime, companies are unwilling to invest in innovative new digital services in this country.