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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.
"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.
The WP and NYT especially capture the sense in which she broke Soviet ground as a political wife: less dowdy, more fashion-conscious, if not downright materialistic (with her own American Express card, the Times reminds).
Slavin's uncluttered, room-temperature prose renders the monstrous familiar, even beautiful" (Charles Taylor, the New York Times Book Review ). Others note that "[i]t seems to be a common, almost universal, tactic in American literature to depict the suburbs as a duplicitous world where a safe, materialistic, blandly cheerful surface conceals a dark secret life" and that the stories' predictable outlandishness verges on becoming "precious" (Judy Budnitz, the Village Voice ). Or as Kirkus Reviews writes, "Slavin has a warped sense of humor and enjoys rubbing the reader's nose in it."
"The more materialistic science becomes," he boasted to Oscar Wilde, "the more angels shall I paint."