How to Use matter in a Sentence

matter

1 of 2 noun

• He has a few personal matters to deal with.
• Can matter and energy be changed into each other?
• Disagreement is one thing, but accusations of lying are a different matter altogether!
• The virus killed 37 people linked to the home in a matter of weeks.
  — Michael Schulson/undark, Popular Science, 22 June 2020
• The fact of the matter is that his wife Patti has a vote too.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2019
• But even the fact Southgate is in the job is a matter of luck.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 10 July 2018
• Friend-of-the-court briefs took an even broader view of the matter.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2022
• Williams didn’t care what any lawyers had to say about the matter.
  — oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023
• Zhukovskyy and his lawyer have yet to comment on the matter.
  — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2019
• The next step would then be how Goodell rules on the matter.
  — Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 28 May 2022
• The truth of the matter is that there has been content to carry us.
  — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 10 May 2020
• There’s a common theme among some of the court matters.
  — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 23 June 2018
• Because the fact of the matter is all that dirt and grime has to go somewhere.
  — Country Living, 22 Nov. 2019
• The facts of the matter are there is a reality to that.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 16 Sep. 2022
• And for the last 50 days, nor has anyone else for that matter.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2020
• The pain dissipates in a matter of days, and that’s it.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2020
• Lewis couldn’t feel any part of his leg for that matter.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2022
• On second thought, Lamb does have a few words on the matter.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2021
• Trump said in one of a series of morning tweets on the matter.
  — Julie Hirschfeld Davis, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The pope agreed to launch one, but then proceeded to drag his feet on the matter.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 3 July 2018
• This makes more sense to us as a way that matter might behave.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
• This was the first time in their careers that Jason beat Travis (and beat the Chiefs, for that matter).
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
• No, not a drug dealer, which was a matter of bad taste.
  — Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• As a matter of sheer numbers, there are just not enough kids to do such a thing.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2021
• Strides are good, but the end goal should be winning the vital games that matter.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2021
• Joshua Gray was matter of fact as to what needs to improve from his unit.
  — oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2021
• Thank God facts exist and matter, at least in some places.
  — Sam Bahour, Washington Post, 3 June 2021
• Then there was the matter of understanding what was in the bill.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Some of this is not a matter of his mind alone: there are indeed changes afoot in his life.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2021
• How will that personal matter be dealt with on the show?
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022

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matter

2 of 2 verb

• It may not matter to you, but it matters a lot to me!
• But in the era of meme stocks, that doesn’t seem to matter.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 3 June 2021
• That month mattered to her, and to all of them, and maybe to you.
  — Chavi Eve Karkowsky, Slate Magazine, 30 Oct. 2017
• But that didn’t matter, the tastes of home were enough.
  — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2020
• What matters most to him is to feel and live like a Brit.
  — Verena Dobnik, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
• That does not matter as a trip to the league’s hottest team on the road awaits them.
  — Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2023
• That’s all that’s going to matter in the grand scheme of things.
  — Nolan King, MMA Junkie, 3 Feb. 2020
• Their games matter now, and fans will tune in to watch them.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 16 June 2021
• But debate rages as to which matters more in the ocean.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
• Hands on a clock didn’t seem to matter much at the moment.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2022
• But money goals should be tied to the things that matter most to you.
  — Nerdwallet, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2023
• Those who tried found that the things that used to matter to them no longer did in the same way.
  — Barry J. Jacobs, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 July 2018
• But if none of that matters to you, this might: sloths.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 4 Mar. 2020
• The scent profile is the first thing that matters when choosing the best cologne.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• All that matters though is our friend is safe and alive!
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• But the other point here is that next time, the courts may not matter.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2022
• None of these claims are true, but that doesn’t matter.
  — Author: Lisa Rein, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2021
• That didn’t seem to matter in the early stages of the game as the Kings came out firing.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 10 Apr. 2024
• Make your voice heard on the issues that matter to you.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• This was still Lebanon, where style matters, even in war.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
• And that was all that mattered in my first moments as a mom.
  — Glamour, 9 Jan. 2020
• The fact that her life didn’t matter in this verdict is painful.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• But what mattered most was the dash between those years.
  — Tom Green, AL.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• All that mattered was to be near Bhagwan and do his work.
  — Susan Harfouche, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• That crime in the city over all was still at historic lows didn’t matter.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 23 June 2021
• That matters all the more in a world as chaotic as today’s.
  — Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024
• Is there any chance that some of the players just feel like this year doesn't matter?
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2020
• And in a fair and rational world, none of it would matter.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• There wasn’t much to go on, but that didn’t matter either.
  — Lauren Oyler, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2021
• That means raising its level of play in the games that matter most.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024