Words similar to consumerism

Example sentences for: consumerism

How can you use “consumerism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

If consumers were unhappy with the gaudy, chrome-plated excess of '50s consumerism, if they resented the crude ministrations of Madison Avenue, then this was something that advertisers needed to know, and to act upon.
Schor celebrates downshifters--people defined by not spending--because she views consumerism as evil.
Conglomeration encourages cultural homogenization and consumerism.
The trick was to make the middle class's pervasive dissatisfaction with commercialism, cheap goods, and planned obsolescence into an instrument of consumerism itself.
Or it could simply be a bright but chuckleheaded exercise in consumerism" (Herbert Muschamp, the New York Times ). (To learn more about the New Amsterdam, click here.)