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Sentences starting with material

Material change of programme every evening. [5]
Material resources are now more complete and abundant than ever. [7]
Material loss weighed nothing in the balance with other losses she was sustaining. [13]
Material for the new book would grow faster with Twichell as a companion; and these two in spite of their widely opposed views concerning Providence and the general scheme of creation, were wholly congenial comrades. [5]

Sentences ending with material

Now what would you expect from that unpromising material? [5]
It pervades the whole animal fabric as areolar tissue, which is the universal packing and wrapping material. [3]
They helped me, they fed me with dialect, with local details, with memories, with old letters, with diaries of their forebears, until, if I had gone wrong, it would have been through lack of skill in handling my material. [11]
Well, ever since then I have worked day and night making notes and collecting and classifying material. [5]
Nothing came of the venture, except some chapters in 'Roughing It', rewritten from the material. [5]
The realm of the real is spiritual; the opposite of Spirit is matter; and the opposite of the real is unreal or material. [5]
The idea of the play interested Howells, but he had twinges of conscience in the matter of using Orion as material. [5]
I am sure that the scholar, trained to "plain living and high thinking," knows that the prosperous life consists in the culture of the man, and not in the refinement and accumulation of the material. [4]
It was a splendid population--for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths staid at home--you never find that sort of people among pioneers --you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. [5]
Was there also something of that perdurable cohesion of class against class; the powerful if often unlovely unity of faction, the shoulder-to-shoulder combination of war; the tribal fanaticism which makes brave men out of unpromising material? [11]

Short sentences using material

Good excitable, inflammable material? [5]
Her material prosperity is genuine. [5]
Creates without material. [5]
Raw Material. [9]

Sentences containing material two or more times

A feeling of purity impresses itself on the eye and the mind from the absence of the coarser material which forms so invariable a material in Agra architecture. [5]
Away from the bickerings, the subjection of mean spirits; material loss and gain and material passion! [9]

More example sentences with the word material in them

Do you think you can make your heroes and heroines,--nay, even your scrappy supernumeraries,--out of refuse material, as you made your scarecrow? [6]
Most of his writings are repetitions and recastings of the old material, with such reflections as occur to him from time to time. [4]
Why shouldn't you write it, and I arrange the material, and talk about it! [9]
What delight it would also have given her to provide her son's linen, and how much finer was the Flanders material than that made at Villagarcia! [10]
A sensation (the word you see is material and inappropriate) of etherealization and imponderability pervaded me, and I was not sorry to get rid of such a dull, slow mass as I now perceived myself to be, lying there on the bed. [4]
It is no wonder that he sometimes takes--a material view of things. [9]
The material difficulties with which the head-master had had to struggle after the erection of the large new buildings were also removed when Froebel's prosperous brother in Osterode decided to take part in the work and move to Keilhau. [10]
The hostess succeeds who is able to excite this general play of all the forces at the table, even using the silent but not non-elastic material as cushions, if one may continue the figure. [4]
A young priest whispered to his neighbor, "He is praying--" and Anana noticed with silent anxiety the strong hand of his teacher clutching the manuscript so tightly that the slight material of which it consisted threatened to split. [10]
Under light awnings, which kept off the sun, were sold sandals and kerchiefs of every material and hue, ornaments, amulets, fans, and sun-shades, sweet essences of every kind, and other gifts for offerings or for the toilet. [10]
The material universe, which he has just pictured in its summer beauty, deserves our admiration. [6]
I don't know what's the reason, but these material tokens of a social decay afflict me terribly; a tipsy woman isn't dreadfuler than a haggard old house, that's once been a home, in a street like this. [5]
That she mistook what really was in his eyes was not material, though he was thinking of days when he believed he had discovered the secret of life--a woman whose life was beautiful; diffusing beauty, contentment, inspiration and peace. [11]
I don't know what expense the gardener has been to about it, what material and care have been necessary to bring it to perfection. [4]
I know very well there is here no part of the Herbert whose hand I had shaken at the Commencement parting; but it is an astonishing reproduction of him,--a material likeness; and now for the spiritual. [4]
Our material life was sensibly arranged. [10]
The table cloth was of very coarse material and was liberally spotted with coffee stains and grease. [5]
Ah, that religion was not religion, for religion was a spiritual, not a material affair. [9]
The chief reason was a sudden, vivid sense of the terrible contrast between something infinitely great and illimitable within him and that limited and material something that he, and even she, was. [2]
Her imagination, which was a spirit more sombre than sunny--more powerful than sportive--found in such traits material whence it wrought creations like Heathcliff, like Earnshaw, like Catherine. [14]
Above these the walls were covered with a beautiful dark green material brought from Sais, and the same stuff was used to cover the long divans by the wall. [10]
Only the first volume originally contained much more Egyptian material, and the third I lengthened beyond my primary intention. [10]
These explorations and visits gave him material for future use, and exercised his pen in agreeable correspondence; but his tendency at this time, and for several years afterwards, was to the idle life of a man of society. [4]
One can be very proud of his adopted country, and brag for it, and fight for it; but lying deep in a man's nature is something, no doubt, that no oath nor material interest can change, and that is never naturalized. [4]
This is the very material that so many oriental tales have been made of. [5]
Thus is the utilitarian spirit eating away the foundations of a higher intellectual life, applying to everything a material measure. [4]
The evidence reaching us from the country leaves no doubt that the material for the work is abundant, and that it needs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanction, and the hand of the executive to give it practical shape and efficiency. [7]
The painter started up from his seat and took the material in his hands and looked at Cynthia. [9]
From this material, under cover of "liberty of speech," "liberty of the press," and "habeas corpus," they hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways. [7]
It was the unconscious tribute, too,--slight as was its exhibition,--of the man whose life has been spent in the conquest of material things to the man who has the audacity, insensate though it seem, to fling these to the winds in his search after ideals. [9]
And when one travels he sees what a vast material there is for society and friendship, of which he can never avail himself. [4]
The material truthfulness to which the school of M. Flaubert more especially pretends misses its aim in going beyond it. [6]
He is entitled to use the space for which he pays by the insertion of such material as is approved by the editor. [4]
When it comes to that, the best man, not exactly in the moral sense, but rather in the material, and more especially the muscular point of view, is very apt to have the best of it, irrespectively of the merits of the case. [6]
Their office corresponds to that of Nature's sanitary commission for the removal of material nuisances. [6]
Besides, she wanted to show her the beautiful material, which would please the faithful soul. [10]
The only check to material individualism is spiritual individualism, and the reborn man or woman cannot act to the detriment of his fellow-creatures. [9]
From a determination to fight his own fight with no material aids, he had never once used the antidote sent him by the Cure's brother. [11]
And, worse than this, the estimate she placed upon the values of material things was shockingly inadequate to her position. [4]
A youth of this kind is raw material in its first stage of elaboration. [6]
Here in America this is, in great part, a movement for merely physical or material equalization. [4]
One advantage of this is that when new and usable material is not forthcoming, the "standards" and the best literature must be reproduced in countless editions, and the best literature is broadcast over the world at prices to suit all purses, even the leanest. [4]
True, the material they have is very limited, but they drive at it might and main. [7]
As Carnac saw the world where there was not a single material thing that belonged to him, he had a sudden conviction that his life would run in other lines than those within which it had been drawn to the present time. [11]
When he sees the value the intelligent and the well-to-do set upon material things, and their small regard for intellectual things and the pleasures of the mind, why should he not most passionately desire those things which his more fortunate neighbors put foremost? [4]
The front of the tent, covered with red and white material, stood open, permitting the guests who did not belong to the court to survey the interior. [10]
In August of the same year he made a trip to London, to get material for a book on England, but was too much sought after, too continuously feted, to do any work. [5]
Until that moment the revolt had been personal, local, founded on a particular grievance which had to do with wages and the material struggle for existence. [9]
Will you repeat the old experiment of a material success and a moral and spiritual failure? [4]
Slowly out of the obscurity of the earth's shadow emerged the vague outlines of familiar things until they stood sharply material, in a silence as of death. [9]
The importation into the novel of the vulgar, sordid, and ignoble in life is always unbearable, unless genius first fuses the raw material in its alembic. [4]
I dare say the material works up faster now, and in a season or two you won't know the Dryfooses from the other plutocrats. [8]
His life-work subordinated the material to the spiritual, and He left this legacy of truth to mankind. [5]
The list of the material benefits, for which there was a crying need, bore a strong resemblance to a summary of the worthy measures upon which Mr. Crewe had spent so much time and labour in the last Legislature. [9]
First and last, the Marches did a good deal of travel on the Elevated roads, which, he said, gave you such glimpses of material aspects in the city as some violent invasion of others' lives might afford in human nature. [8]
Ministers work out the machinery of responsibility in an abstract kind of way; they have a sort of algebra of human nature, in which friction and strength (or weakness) of material are left out. [6]
Almost every day the interrogatories of the morning lasted three or four hours; then from these morning interrogatories they extracted the particularly difficult and subtle points, and these served as material for the afternoon interrogatories, which lasted two or three hours. [5]
This intussusception of the ideas of inanimate objects, and their faithful storing away among the sentiments, are curiously prefigured in the material structure of the thinking centre itself. [6]
This morning, however, the huge material towers which she gazed upon seemed stronger than Providence, and she thought of her husband. [9]
I tell you, the higher a man has to carry the raw material of thought before he works it up, the more it costs him in blood, nerve, and muscle. [6]
Not only are the fears of mankind the whip to scourge and the bridle to restrain them, but they are the basis of an almost incalculable material interest. [6]
Such people as the Dryfooses are the raw material of good society. [8]
On the contrary, the army had never under the best material conditions presented a more cheerful and animated aspect. [2]
All officers of the army and navy to whom this order may be exhibited will aid by every means in their power the expedition under the command of Colonel Harvey Brown, supplying him with men and material, and co-operating with him as he may desire. [7]
Hence it is that what is called a practical education is set above the mere enlargement and enrichment of the mind; and the possession of the material is valued, and the intellectual life is undervalued. [4]
He remembered now that the painter had a way of talking at discretion: he had never got any really good material from him. [11]
Let us admit that the material for the dress is a little cheaper than it was four years ago, but when she comes to look into the family stocking--" (Laughter. [9]
She knew alone that it was nigh irresistible, and she grasped the back of the chair as though material support might sustain her. [9]
Every material statement that I made has been sworn to by men who, in former times, were thought as respectable as General Adams. [7]
He decided simultaneously that his own local studies must be illustrated, and that he must come with the artist and show him just which bits to do, not knowing that the two arts can never approach the same material from the same point. [8]
T. De Witt Talmage is of the same material as that used in the construction of his early predecessors in the ministry; and yet one feels that there must be a difference somewhere between him and the Saviour's first disciples. [5]
Whether the average talent be high or low, the Colleges of the land must make the best commodity they can out of such material as the country and the cities furnish them. [3]
We are pursuing substantially the old ends of material success and display. [4]
I had been stripped of my clothes, and put into some coarse and rough material, the colour and condition of which I could not see for want of light. [9]
There was a strange numbness in his mind and body, and he had a feeling that he moved immense and reflective among material things. [11]
In the United States, under totally different conditions, and under an economic theory that, whatever its defects on paper, has nevertheless insisted more upon the worth of the individual man, we have had, all the same, a distinctly material development. [4]
The kernal, the soul--let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances--is plagiarism. [5]
Physical sensation, not Soul, produces material ecstasy, and emotions. [5]
They receive their soul from the heights of heaven, the seat and source of light; their material body is of the earth; and the appearance or outward form by which one human being is distinguished from another at sight--his phantom or shadow--belongs to the depths. [10]
When he covets somebody's money--isn't that rather distinctly material and gross? [5]
And there are some exceptions to this general material prosperity, in its result to the working classes. [4]
Spoken language is so plastic,--you can pat and coax, and spread and shave, and rub out, and fill up, and stick on so easily when you work that soft material, that there is nothing like it for modelling. [6]
His severely formal, simple ecclesiastical dress, coarse in material but perfect in its saintly lines, separated him from the world in which he moved so unostentatiously and humbly, and marked him as one who went about doing good. [4]
He did not seem to appreciate who his visitor was, at any rate gave no sign of so doing, and the chief interest of the scene was the wide contrast between these leaders of spiritual and of material forces. [6]
Now, then, you see what the material is, there in Siberia, for a republic. [5]
It involves the Science of Life, and recognizes only the divine control of Spirit, wherein Soul is our master, and material sense and human will have no place. [5]
That is to say, if it were shut off from the rest of the world, it has in itself the material for great comfort and civilization. [4]
I regret to say I have been unable to give personal attention to this subject--a subject at once so interesting in itself and so extensively and intimately connected with the material prosperity of the world. [7]
We have a right to trust that this people is virtuous and brave enough not to give up a just and necessary contest before its end is attained, or shown to be unattainable for want of material agencies. [6]
Mr. Leslie Stephen remarks ('Essays on Freethinking and Plain Speaking,' 1873, p. 83), "the metaphysical distinction, between material and formal morality is as irrelevant as other such distinctions. [1]
History is the record of the rise of splendid civilizations, many of which have flowered into the most glorious products of learning and of art, and have left monuments of the proudest material achievements. [4]
And still more reasonable does the division appear between all the world which is devoted to material life, and the few who live in and for the expression of thought and emotion. [4]
The Republican party realizes that the Northeastern is most vitally connected with the material interests of this State; that the prosperity of the road means the prosperity of the State. [9]
It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products. [6]
It is Mathematics purified from material dross and made spiritual. [5]
But that didn't prove that he hadn't material in him for the disposition, it only proved that he wasn't a typewriter copyist yet. [5]
Higher wages, material prosperity alone will not suffice to satisfy aspirations for a fuller self-realization, once the method by which these aspirations can be gained is glimpsed. [9]
We riot in prodigality, we vie with each other in material accumulation and expense. [4]
He supposes a primary and not easily definable Being, by which the whole world is governed, and in which, though in himself infinite and without limits, everything material and circumscribed has its foundation. [10]
A glance, a pressure of the hand, even the light touch of a garment, and the flame blazes, where such inflammable material lies ready. [10]

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