Material

//məˈtɪə.ɹi.əl//

"Material" in a Sentence (43 examples)

Another interesting source of energy is the heat that can be recovered from radioactive waste material.

It is best to review the material before the presentation.

This is an argument material to the question in hand.

This is a crude material imported from Malaysia.

This material will stand up to lots of washings.

This material never wears out.

This material is not suitable for a dress.

This material stretches easily.

I want a suit made of this material.

I'm going to make this material into a skirt.

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This compound has a number of interesting material properties.

the material elements of the universe

material needs

material cause

the material aspect of being

found a material difference between two things

You've made several material contributions to this project.

This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.

discourse, which was always material, not trifling

I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.

the material world

interested only in material progress

Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.

'Cause we are living in a material world / And I am a material girl / You know that we are living in a material world / And I am a material girl

Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads.

In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.

Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

boy/girlfriend material

marriage material

We have lots of presidential material in various public offices.

Before she married her husband, Kiersten Little considered him ideal father material.

Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

teaching materials

We were a warm-up act at the time; we didn't have enough original material to headline.

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]

a piece of material

You'll need about a yard of material to make this.

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

The solid materials of the mixture will settle to the bottom of the container.

The material of his character was basically good.

[…] I beleeve that as they ſay of the materialls of the world, they would ſoone diſolve if the ſoule of it were taken away […]

As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life.

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