raw material

Example Sentences

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Building product companies have faced significant challenges recently as tariffs have driven up raw material prices and fewer consumers are upgrading their homes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

This gas acts as the raw material for building new stars.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

“We think that raw material issues are likely to cause some earnings growth uncertainties,” Zekauskas wrote in a note to clients.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

Fuel and raw material shortages, chronic underinvestment and nationalisations have hollowed out the local economy.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

I saw the gang members not as rivals but as raw material to be converted.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela