reading matter
Example Sentences
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The astronaut’s choice of reading matter in quarantine was particularly apt.
From Fox News ● Jul. 22, 2019
Still, to frame this in maximally self-serving terms, those crippling impacts mean that if you’re on the East Coast, you might be looking for some reading matter this weekend.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2016
In under a month, this anonymous Instagram account, with just over 20 posts, has pulled in more than 300,000 followers, and it’s safe to assume the draw is not their actual reading matter.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2015
In 1984 an Oxford tutor employed by military hospitals to advise on reading matter for the war-wounded selected the works of Jane Austen for the severely shell shocked.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2013
Then the film cameras chopped short and the theaters turned dark, and the print presses trickled down from a great Niagara of reading matter to a mere innocuous dripping of ‘pure’ material.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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