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

"I always had these yearnings for a lifestyle that was different to the materialistic lifestyle," he explains.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025

The production by the late director Michael Cavanagh, which comes courtesy of San Francisco Opera, is indeed materialistic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025

Later they turn to kingly and materialistic protections against their wandering.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 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