materialistic

Example Sentences

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She later refused to perform at a New Jersey venue if the American national anthem was played and boycotted the Grammy Award ceremonies in 1991, saying the pop world was too materialistic.

From Los Angeles Times

"It may seem materialistic but they're things you would appreciate so you can stay behind a closed door and cry all day."

From BBC

Leahy suggests a thought exercise to counteract materialistic envy: “Imagine everything has been taken away,” he says, including all of your possessions.

From Seattle Times

It’s less tangible and less materialistic than the Mercedes her husband had long wished for and something that, in the end, only she can provide for herself.

From Washington Post

While translating Poe's works into French in the 1850s and 1860s, the French poet Charles Baudelaire promoted his hero as a kind of countercultural visionary, out of step with a moralistic, materialistic America.

From Salon