Sentence examples for chasing material from inspiring English sources

I was so preoccupied with chasing material comforts that my happiness took a back seat.

3. Don't spend your life chasing after material things -- you will waste it.

18) More life experiences and adventure Chasing less material possessions leaves room for chasing more life adventures and experiences instead.

Suddenly, the tips and tricks that worked well for us in the past (popularity, work success, chasing relationships, material wealth) are no longer satisfying.

When he considered factories in China, "I realized I was chasing the cheapest material, the cheapest labor," he explains to the Guardian.

What Mildred does in socially acceptable forms – marrying aspirationally, chasing social and material success – Veda takes to obscene extremes, the reductio ad nauseam of Mildred's unacknowledged (and considerably less malevolent) motives.

Over the Christmas break he was up in one of CSM's studios fretting gently – he was waiting on orders of denim from Japan, shoes from America and umbrellas from the Netherlands (students must source, fund and chase their materials themselves. "I'm running my own company here, it's crazy," he says).

14) More living Chasing less material possessions, and having less commitments in our diary we're not passionate about keeping, means we have time to spend on those things and people that matter most.

He also gave the dog a rudimentary sense of balance, the ability to distinguish light from dark and a predilection for chasing objects displaying reflective material.

It's a piece in which ideas initially bounced around by a couple of violins are gradually taken up by the rest of the 21-piece ensemble, reaching extravagant heights of manic activity as they chase the musical material around; Collon and his players, though, dashed it off as if it were the easiest thing in the world.

The killing embroiled most of Europe in a cold war-style drama, with investigators chasing a trail of radioactive material from a hotel bar in London to Moscow and aboard the passenger airlines that linked those cities.