MATERIAL in a Sentence

Learn MATERIAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

346 example sentences for MATERIAL, such as:

1. The material has a red fleck in it.
2. Animals depend on plant material for food.
3. This kind of material absorbs water easily.
4. A relatively firm material can be anticipated.
5. To be at an early certainty is a material object.

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 Meanings and Examples of MATERIAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
material
 n.  the matter from which a thing is or can be made
 a.  formed or consisting of matter
Classic Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
1  A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
2  Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
3  Time went on in Coketown like its own machinery: so much material wrought up, so much fuel consumed, so many powers worn out, so much money made.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
4  Our history must needs retrograde for the space of a few pages, to inform the reader of certain passages material to his understanding the rest of this important narrative.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  My dear man, it allows the material premiss; so does the pure mind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  So, like a demure arcadian field-marshal, Hilda arranged the material part of the journey.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
7  It was as if his very passivity and prostitution to the Magna Mater gave him insight into material business affairs, and lent him a certain remarkable inhuman force.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  If that be all your difficulty, I will furnish you with paper and every other material, and you may write your letter whenever you choose.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  Their departure made another material change at Mansfield, a chasm which required some time to fill up.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  The intimacy thus begun between them was a material advantage to each.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
11  To be at an early certainty is a material object.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
12  Mr. Crawford would have fully acquitted her conduct in refusing him; but this, though most material to herself, would be poor consolation to Sir Thomas.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
13  They had each had money, but their marriages had made a material difference in their degree of consequence.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  Now you are to understand, that time had worked a very material change in Mr Elliot's opinions as to the value of a baronetcy.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
15  It was a worn whisper, dry and papery, and it brushed so distinctly across the ear that, by the accustomed, the material minutiae in which it originated could be realized as by touch.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
Example Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
16  This kind of material absorbs water easily.
17  Newspapers should not publish material that is likely to encourage discrimination on the grounds of race or colour.
18  A relatively firm material can be anticipated.
19  Oil is an important raw material which can be processed into many different products, including plastics.
20  Men of privilege without power are waste material, Men of enlighten-ment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish.
21  The machine can accurately locate radioactive material.
22  The main disadvantage of the material is that it fades in strong sunlight.
23  Ensure all photographic material is properly packed and sent by recorded delivery.
24  Animals depend on plant material for food.
25  The material has a red fleck in it.
26  Higher raw material costs have pushed up the price of many manufactured goods.
27  A warm house and good food are material comforts.
28  They are collecting this material at the points of origin.
29  Genetic engineers transpose or exchange bits of hereditary material from one organism to the next.
30  We beamed the X-rays through the material.