materialistic

Example Sentences

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Mr. Ennos is hard on the materialistic lifestyle, and this view can be defended.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

He prefers giving flowers, describing the idea of gifting money as "materialistic".

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

The story originally satirized materialistic baby boomers stymied by shifting gender roles.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

I realized that I’d been pretty materialistic, a “living in the moment” kind of a thing and not really thinking much about the long term.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2024

It seemed to me that for the Negro to try to save himself he would have to forget himself and try to save a confused, materialistic nation from its own drift toward self-destruction.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright