Sentence examples for a few materials from inspiring English sources

It has been detected only in a few materials.

A few materials, notably iron, show a very large attraction toward the pole of a permanent bar magnet; materials of this kind are called ferromagnetic.

So far, only a few materials can be used, the process can take a long time, and items need to be assembled afterward.

A few materials start to yield, or flow plastically, at a fairly well-defined stress (upper yield point) that falls rapidly to a lower steady value (lower yield point) as deformation continues.

WASHINGTON — American slaves managed ingeniously to acquire a few material comforts.

On the other hand, their inner lives remain true blanks; we have only a few material fragments to give us clues as to what their conscious experience of the world might have been.

Morris asks, "Is it possible to offer more than the most tender affection and a lifelong devotion?" Dr. Sloper, suspecting the worst, answers, "A lifelong devotion is measured after the fact; and meanwhile it is usual in these cases to give a few material securities".