MATERIALISM in a Sentence

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His feet had sandals of the same fashion with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in the front with golden clasps.

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 Meanings and Examples of MATERIALISM
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materialism
 n.  philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
Classic Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
1  The materialism you advocate has been more than once in vogue already, and has always proved insufficient.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
3  There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
4  From now onwards Animal Farm would engage in trade with the neighbouring farms: not, of course, for any commercial purpose, but simply in order to obtain certain materials which were urgently necessary.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
5  He was obviously an ecclesiastic of high rank; his dress was that of a Cistercian Monk, but composed of materials much finer than those which the rule of that order admitted.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  His feet had sandals of the same fashion with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in the front with golden clasps.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Behind his seat was hung a scarlet cloth cloak lined with fur, and a cap of the same materials richly embroidered, which completed the dress of the opulent landholder when he chose to go forth.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  The Prior Aymer had taken the opportunity afforded him, of changing his riding robe for one of yet more costly materials, over which he wore a cope curiously embroidered.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  He had large boots lined with fur, and a belt around his waist, which sustained a small knife, together with a case for writing materials, but no weapon.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  She went accordingly to the table, where she was in the habit of writing for her aunt, and prepared her materials without knowing what in the world to say.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  Fires of the last-mentioned materials were rare, and though comparatively small in magnitude beside the transient blazes, now began to get the best of them by mere long continuance.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
12  The man took a piece of rag from a satchel containing sewing materials, tore off a strip, which, like everything else, was tinged red, and proceeded to bind up the wound.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
13  At every vacant minute he hastened to gather furze-stumps, thorn-tree roots, and other solid materials from the adjacent slopes, hiding them from cursory view.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
14  But now the Confederate ports were stoppered with Yankee gunboats, only a trickle of blockade-run goods was slipping in from Europe, and the South was desperately trying to manufacture her own war materials.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  Almost the pulsing of the town's heart could be felt as the work went forward night and day, pumping the materials of war up the railway arteries to the two battle fronts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
16  We import raw materials and energy and export mainly in-dustrial products.
17  All the materials are on site so that work can start immediately.
18  The price will include the labour and materials.
19  The cost of materials rose sharply last year.
20  The industry relies on the price of raw materials remaining low.
21  This can involve materials already in school, some supplementary materials or the careful planning of a visit or trip.
22  He has invented a new method to reclaim valuable raw materials from industrial waste water.
23  Many natural materials are becoming scarce.
24  All these materials are found in nature.
25  Smoking is strictly prohibited in the process of handling explosive materials.
26  The ship was laden with war materials.
27  Raw materials and labour come by ship, rail or road.
28  Collecting the raw materials proved a long and laborious task.
29  Mercury thus contains a much greater abundance of denser materials, the strong implication being that it is rich in metallic iron.
30  Some scientists believe that comets hold the most primitive materials in the solar system and that they played a role in shaping some of the planets.