material goods

Example Sentences

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“Historically, during periods of duress, societies turn to material goods instead of cash.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

While the relationship between money and happiness is typically framed as a choice between spending on material goods or spending on experiences, many Americans are expressing a different desire for their money: saving more.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025

Giving Tuesday’s arrival days after Thanksgiving and Black Friday snaps us out of the funk brought on by consumption of food and material goods at peak levels.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023

As Bob Batchelor wrote in his paper "Advertising in the 1920s," most Americans both had more financial success than they had in the previous decade and increasingly equated material goods with personal success.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2023

Our only material goods from the outside world of late were comic books, which my sisters cherished like Marco Polo’s spices from China, and powdered eggs and milk, to which we felt indifferent.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver