reading matter
Example Sentences
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“People don’t get their morality from their reading matter; they bring their morality to it,” he wrote.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2019
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
When I ran out of reading matter, I was reduced to studying the ripstop pattern woven into the tent ceiling.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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