Example sentences for: materialistic

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

  • She was not, in short, making a selfish, materialistic inquiry.

  • Do I get it when “I shall not want,” four simple one-syllable words, swaying in iambic rhythm, with the shall sliding irresistibly into the breathy w of want calling up the memory of God's “breathing the breath of life” [Genesis 2:7] and man becoming a “living soul” is “improved” to “I shall lack nothing” with its jagged k sound, its materialistic, vacuous nothing , or changed to “I have everything I need” to which “Well, whad-daya know!”

  • "The more materialistic science becomes," he boasted to Oscar Wilde, "the more angels shall I paint."

  • "The lamentable moral degradation that leads some people to exchange human lives for money has its roots in our materialistic society, characterized by badly swollen egos," the paper claimed.

  • It's this kind of pathological attention to detail that makes American industry the envy of the more materialistic parts of the world, and "News Quiz" such a pleasure to work on.


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