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. Cotton is a type of material.
2. Hold the material between finger and thumb.
3. To be at an early certainty is a material object.
4. You could stuff the chair with this torn material.
5. In my version of the story, I added some new material.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MATERIAL
material
 a.  directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
 n.  things needed for doing or making something
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)
1  Much of the really nutritive material actually was refined out of food.
2  Youth is to prepare the material, want to build a bridge to the moon, or on the ground and two palaces or temples.
3  Who has the material to survive, people have a dream only talk about life.
4  The author included a new chapter of background material for the second edition of the book.
5  This material is available in a huge range of colours.
6  I brought a few trifles back from India - bits of jewellery and material mainly.
7  Cotton is a type of material.
8  In my version of the story, I added some new material.
9  The material has exceptionally high strength for its weight.
10  No fuss was made in my day if a new writer took from an old one whatever material he found congenial.
11  Hold the material between finger and thumb.
12  You could stuff the chair with this torn material.
13  This hard-wearing material combines cost effectiveness with quality.
14  Our responsibility is to level up the standard of the people's material and cultural life.
15  Using sharp scissors, make a small cut in the material.