reading matter
Example Sentences
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The boat is outfitted for a long haul, stuffed with bags containing electronics and reading matter and camping gear and annotated area maps, its lone paddle tethered securely to a gunwale.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
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 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
After that she had plunged headlong into the only other reading matter available, Hannah’s tattered Bible.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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