Some people, such as the Melanesians, extend this idea further by freely inventing signs to make up their drum signals.

Miss Ephron and Miss Arlen invent freely and with a lot of good humor.

In later years Burr freely invented stories of a happy childhood.

I gave her my number, inventing freely.

When she does surface, her imagination fails her at crucial moments, leaving the reader confused as to why she can freely invent some elements of her ancestors' story but not others.

After the libertarian revolution, even identity's constraints will be shed; one will finally be able to freely invent oneself.

Sealed labs and limited assemblers will form a complementary pair: The first will let us invent freely; the second will let us enjoy the fruits of our invention safely.

In addition to adapting the occasionally traditional blues lyric (such as "if I was chief of police, I would run her right out of town"), he freely invented many of his songs from scratch.

Herodotus, considered by some as the first systematic historian, and, later, Plutarch freely invented speeches for their historical figures and chose their historical subjects with an eye toward morally improving the reader.

"Ms. Ephron and Ms. Arlen invent freely and with a lot of good humor," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times.