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Example sentences for: materialism

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

One is the retreat from materialism and the modern city into a monochromatic refuge of meditative calm.
A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, titled "The Church of Darwin," called evolution "the main scientific prop" for a philosophy of "materialism" that denies God's existence.
Cynics argued that Chinese students have given up the idealism of 1989 for the materialism of the Clinton era.
"I think that that is a profound reaction to the materialism of our time and to the hollowness of life if you're only interested in material things."
The Wall Street Journal reports that an activist's TV commercial urging viewers to cut back on Christmas materialism by participating in "Buy Nothing Day" has been rejected by the major broadcast networks (it has been accepted by CNN).