How to Use materialism in a Sentence

materialism

noun

• The two lyricists found themselves in a genre now ruled by materialism.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• All is made of atoms, a claim that leads to a brief overview of the history of materialism.
  — Denis Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• What this film tells the viewer is that success is not measured in materialism, but how much one gives back.
  — Rachael Scott, CNN, 19 Dec. 2020
• What this film tells the viewer is that success is not measured in materialism, but how much one gives back.
  — Rachael Scott, CNN, 25 Dec. 2021
• As world views go, scientific materialism has a lot to say for it.
  — Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
• In essence, the problem wasn’t a shortage of gas, but an excess of materialism.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2021
• There are some places where moral outrage should triumph materialism.
  — Mei Fong, The Atlantic, 11 July 2020
• But naming something can serve to push against a culture of materialism.
  — Kathryn Hymes, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
• His images reveal his disdain for materialism, and the cost of greed.
  — Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
• Let these guys soak in the joy of the achievement before drowning them in mindless materialism.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• Yet there is something in her vision, its materialism and its idealism too, that might serve us.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• They are rooted in the spiritual world—a realm that feels lost amid our own tumult of materialism.
  — Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• Her pieces are collide-o-scopic mashups of materialism and consumerism.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 4 Aug. 2019
• The scene offers a pitiless view of the sexism, and materialism, of the culture in which the girls were being raised.
  — Mark Oppenheimer, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
• If Rodgers’s example is anything to go by, the road warriors of the old school were above such base materialism.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2021
• But this woman holds something else — a prism, an object that strikes a note of potential and promise, not materialism.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 16 June 2017
• No wonder so many of us, even in this age of scientific materialism, still believe in God.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2020
• This is not wisdom but an acceptance of human nature that can lead to a transcendence from materialism.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
• Exactly, with a lot of the spiritual materialism that is slung around and filtered through skincare and things like that.
  — Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2025
• The young man leaves with a copy of the NIV and returns lauding the materialism of Marx.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 30 June 2021
• This makes perfect sense, since if the self has an end (materialism, remember), then the self is an appropriate end in itself.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• This makes perfect sense, since if the self has an end (materialism, remember), then the self is an appropriate end in itself.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• But Veda is no idealist out to end wars or reject her parents’ materialism.
  — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
• Young women being asked to tell a story that’s outside of materialism or their bodies or their careers is very rare and [those stories are] hard to get funded.
  — Hanna Phifer, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Aug. 2023
• The fifth and final single from Born to Die is a playful take on love as materialism, with a dark underbelly.
  — Richard S. He, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2019
• The program includes dance, text, video and an exploration of culture on dating, clubbing and materialism.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• Sounds like someone took the lesson of overwhelming materialism from the Christmas special to heart.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• Turgenev saw in them a crude but powerful materialism that counterposed the needs of the peasantry against the vague consolations of art.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• But arguably the most ubiquitous of our addictions is materialism—the inexorable human drive for more stuff.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
• There are many who decry today’s consumer culture, with its emphasis on disposable materialism, but these pieces have been loved and preserved for a long time.
  — oregonlive, 7 July 2021