How to Use raw material in a Sentence

raw material

noun

• His experiences during the war were the raw material for the story.
• That's largely due to the high cost of the raw materials to make the battery.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2023
• The raw material, called hurd, is the inner, woody core of the hemp plant, chipped into small pieces.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
• The latter is a way for readers to connect with the raw materials that the essences come from.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• The name Matiere Premiere translates to ‘raw material,’ which is the uniting theme in the line.
  — Sable Yong, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
• The raw material changed and the winemakers had to adapt on how to handle that fruit and how to ferment it.
  — Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• It is made from the same raw materials as tequila and mixed up in the same part of Mexico.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
• The secret, though, was the raw material of sound, his tone, his way of finding a life-force in every note.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Nike and Adidas and the other sneaker makers, of course, provide the raw material that is at the heart of the business.
  — oregonlive, 4 June 2022
• That cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
• And that can result in a tonal jumble like Loot, which feels like a lot of great raw material in search of a series to make sense of it all(*).
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2022
• That said, of the top 10 exports, only one is truly a raw material: Oil.
  — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• The brand’s website lists the exact percentages of raw materials used in each scent.
  — Jane Daly, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 July 2023
• Before the war, roughly half its raw materials, like meat and chicken meal, came from abroad.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Piantedosi cited the Golden Gloss raw material from Lyons as the root cause of the recall.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
• The shutdown may push up the cost of the raw material, which is a key component in electric car batteries.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
• Brown-Forman has raised prices across its suite of products as the cost of raw materials has jumped, and consumers may no longer be willing to pay.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2023
• Carrefour is putting stickers on products that have shrunk in size but cost more even though raw materials prices have eased.
  — Reuters, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
• This is the basic raw material of teen movies, but the twists and tweaks to which they’re subjected here reveal more contrivance than insight.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• The raw material for the first such structure is already on the Moon: the surface layer of soil, or regolith (PDF) to geologists.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 29 Nov. 2022
• Cells need not only energy but a source of raw materials to grow and divide.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• Awash in content, filmmakers and TV auteurs would be foolish to let the raw material of real life go to waste.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• Data work—creating or refining the raw material at the heart of AI— is not new in India.
  — Time, 27 July 2023
• Zoom out, though, and global food prices are still far higher than a year ago, despite precipitous drops in the cost of key raw materials.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 29 June 2023
• The cost price of raw material–fertilizers, diesel etc.
  — Supriya Vohra, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
• The hazel trees provided a source for both raw materials and food, similar to seaweed.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
• Suppliers of the raw material are struggling to keep up, leading to scarcity of firewood.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2022
• But the secret to their single malt isn’t just about the raw materials—Fraser likes to run things low and slow, fermenting the wort for up to seven days using proprietary yeast.
  — Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Some companies are even trying to utilize the seaweed as a raw material.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2022
• Supply chains have also been strained by raw material costs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024