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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:

Like greed, materialism is a vice that tends to afflict those with more money than oneself.
He was enthusiastic--too enthusiastic, he realizes now--to bring glorious Marxism to his suffering people, to free Cambodia from the yoke of Vietnamese invaders, to abolish the twin evils of Western materialism and class privilege.
Shunning shallow materialism is a way to express contempt for the upper class while being a member of the upper class.
And so they find themselves in the cozy position of believing they're beyond materialism while they cruise around in their Ferraris.
One is the retreat from materialism and the modern city into a monochromatic refuge of meditative calm.