How to Use materialistic in a Sentence

materialistic

adjective

• Customers thought the doll was shallow, materialistic, too perfect and not reflective of the world around her.
  — Willa Paskin, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• For me, the essence of giving lay not in materialistic things, like another piece of jewelry or the latest Apple watch, but in the act of sharing a meal or drink with loved ones.
  — Chrissy Tracey, Bon Appétit, 16 Nov. 2023
• West, with the credibility of the underground, the materialistic gloss of the mainstream and an equally deep trove of soul samples, was going to be the new leader.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• Even at the most basic, reductive, materialistic level, a man with a wife and three children has more DNA invested in the next generation than in his own body.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 14 Sep. 2020
• Perhaps the watch has sentimental value; or perhaps Roman is, in his own, odd way, the least materialistic Roy after all.
  — Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2023
• A decade ago, with Enlightened, Mike White discerned that the path to transcendence is often paved with materialistic diversions.
  — Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
• In subsequent Christmas movies, the main plots have not been set in the context of war, yet there is nonetheless often a battle: that of overcoming a materialistic, gift-buying and gift-giving kind of holiday.
  — S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2020
• Many of the most popular kids YouTube videos have featured children unwrapping new toys or doing other materialistic things.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
• The Moon in your security-conscious 8th house is forming a tense opposition to rebel Uranus in your materialistic 2nd house, which could result in a sudden influx of cash -- or a dramatic outpouring.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
• The top five characteristics assigned to Gen Z were: tech-savvy, materialistic, selfish, lazy, and arrogant.
  — The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• Even those words and phrases—takeaway, once-in-a-lifetime, bucket list—expose an insatiable, materialistic mindset.
  — Jackie Caradonio, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 June 2023
• The document urged people to stop polluting and exploiting the planet, to abandon materialistic and wasteful lifestyles, and to protect those who are most vulnerable to the impacts of global warming.
  — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2021
• For Secord, the value of their return is more illustrative than materialistic.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2022
• Sure, its plot hinges on a materialistic desire, but capitalism has seldom felt this comforting.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
• My upbringing taught me that real happiness doesn't come from materialistic things.
  — Priscilla Rodriguez, Allure, 21 Dec. 2020
• Chinese consumers associate the brand with materialistic and stuck-up drivers, noted What’s on Weibo, a publication that tracks and analyzes social media trends in China.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2023
• Researchers have noted that various birthday-party poopers thought that the celebrations were self-centered and materialistic, took attention away from God, and turned children into brats.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2021
• Much of what preceded in drug rap was either a moralistic cautionary tale or lavishly materialistic.
  — Abe Beame, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2023
• Rather, as people become more materialistic, their well-being plummets.
  — Time, 9 Jan. 2023
• The sitcom centers around the lives of the Bluths, a Newport Beach real estate family of spoiled, materialistic, manipulative, and self-serving individuals.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 25 May 2023
• What does an increasingly secular and materialistic society have to do with anti-Semitism?
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 30 May 2021
• The randomly violent group transforms to an anti-materialistic movement called Project Mayhem.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2022
• Lauryn Hill’s conscious and introspective approach stood out in a landscape dominated by more commercial and materialistic themes.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 11 Aug. 2023
• That's my more materialistic life because the company is really successful.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2021
• Ani is an ambitious, materialistic young woman with an eating disorder.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 16 Aug. 2021
• Second, this survey didn’t focus on highly materialistic people.
  — Quora, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• Later developments in the United States, especially mounting inequalities in gender and race, middle-class wage stagnation, and the cravings of an increasingly materialistic society, made his idealistic views look almost naïve.
  — Stephen S. Roach, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
• Their values and beliefs are less materialistic than previous generations.
  — Andrew Ellenberg, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• Transcendentalism was a heady mixture of European Romanticism and Enlightenment theology, born of dissatisfaction with the materialistic and increasingly industrialized culture of antebellum America.
  — Randall Fuller, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2021
• People naturally have some materialistic tendencies, especially in capitalist societies.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 25 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024