Example sentences for: matter

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

  • Academic interpreters have failed to meet the challenge posed by Helen Vendler in her landmark study On Extended Wings --to give up the search for intellectual subject matter and to treat Stevens as "pure sound."

  • This is unlike Joshua--or any other Krohn boy, for that matter.

  • of $100,000 for the frock, no matter what the result.

  • It ought to be self-evident from the subject matter that those who are squeamish about seeing “naughty” words in print should avoid reading the book, which is a longish monograph--the best and most comprehensive I have seen--analyzing the ways in which English speakers deal with taboo words.

  • Any cant word or phrase becomes tiresome, which perhaps accounts in part for Burchfield's impatience with at the end of the day . (The word parse , rapidly deployed in press conferences and commentary after President Clinton used an eyebrow-raising tense to describe his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, went from inert silage to spent husk in a matter of hours.)


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