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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

"I don't have anything particularly sentimental, it's all materialistic, it can be replaced when it gets broken."

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2024

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

We don’t have all of the materialistic riches we once had, but now we have something much more valuable than we had before.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers