Example sentences for: materialistic

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

  • 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!”

  • Time 's trend cover story concludes that Generation Xers are not slackers: They're materialistic, ambitious, and entrepreneurial.

  • The bleak early '90s were defined by the allegedly darker and less materialistic Gen Xers.

  • The story says that what they're fighting is the depiction of Jewish women as "pushy, controlling, selfish, unattractive, materialistic, high-maintenance, shallow, domineering.

  • Crumbling, generic, enervated, debt-ridden, materialistic ...


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