material

Definition:
1. Cloth used for making clothes, curtains, etc.
2. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
3. Information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form.
4. Things needed for doing or making something.
5. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests.
6. Derived from or composed of matter.

Use 'material' in a sentence:

1. She enjoys the material comforts married life has brought her.
2. This new material is virtually unbreakable.
3. The Romans were the first to utilize concrete as a building material.
4. She cut the dress out of some old material.
5. The material is cut and glued in place.
6. Local companies pitched in with building materials and labour.
7. I had a feel of the material.
8. She's collecting material for her latest novel.
9. The material is machined in a factory.
10. The writer uses her childhood as raw material for this novel.
11. They managed to shoehorn the material onto just one CD.
12. He's written a lot of good material that has never seen the light of day.
13. The material would be checked against the depositions from other witnesses.
14. The band played all new material at the gig.
15. This material has been extracted from "Collins Good Wood Handbook."
16. Chapter nine provides a valuable recapitulation of the material already presented.
17. This material crumples very easily.
18. Incorporating organic material into chalky soils will reduce the alkalinity.
19. Davina was sorting out scraps of material.
20. The best material to use for quilting is 100% lightweight cotton.
21. The BBC's archives are bulging with material.
22. This material is 45% nylon.
23. We have had problems with the supply of raw materials to the factory.
24. You need a material with plenty of stretch in it.
25. Raw materials were carried to the works by barge.
26. He never understood how to organize or compress large masses of material.
27. This material can be cut and machined easily.
28. All the materials used were of the highest grade.
29. The country has to import most of its raw materials.
30. She bought a dress pattern and some material.
31. The author has condensed a great deal of material into just 100 pages.
32. The materials used have to be able to withstand high temperatures.
33. In my version of the story, I added some new material.
34. Using sharp scissors, make a small cut in the material.
35. This material frays easily.
36. The material below is a distillation of his work.
37. She's built up a good stock of teaching materials over the years.
38. Prices have risen in order to offset the increased cost of materials.
39. The company has won a contract to supply books and materials to schools.
40. Raw materials and labour come by ship, rail or road.
41. The surfaces are made from a material that doesn't mark.
42. His novels are a rich source of material for the movie industry.
43. Visual material aids the retention of information.
44. The material can absorb outward-going radiation from the earth.
45. These trees provide the raw material for high-quality paper.
46. The company produces its own training material.
47. As the waste materials decompose, they produce methane gas.
48. Students are asked to prepare material in advance of each weekly seminar.
49. The materials you need are available from any good do-it-yourself store.
50. All the materials are on site so that work can start immediately.
51. They were appalled at the waste of recyclable material.
52. He was in a continual process of rewriting his material.