Example sentences for: materialistic

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

  • 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.

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

  • A third-rate mystery tricked out with a great cast and some tony cinematography, the movie unspools like an elderly director's swan song--a bitter, late-Romantic threnody for the lost integrity of an American archetype, co-opted by the evils of a shabbily materialistic culture.

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

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


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