Sentence examples for material want from inspiring English sources

By Ian Frazier The makers of a mycelium-based packing material want to make plastics obsolete.

He says the material want experienced in the Soviet Union led to excess, and defines a typical oligarch.

But if the war and its atrocities had to do with material want, we cannot so easily separate ourselves from evil.

Today, the vast majority of Gandhi's countrymen are still living the simple life full of simple misery, malnourishment and material want.

Overwhelmingly, though, greenwashing has succeeded, creating a complacent class of consumer able to justify just about any material want so long as it is "sustainable".

He remained in the army for another dozen years to qualify for a pension, so he would never be in material want.

It would be easy to ridicule General Washington's extraordinary attention to material wants at this moment of hardship.

A hauler who wants to fill his truck to the top with heavy material wants a light-bodied truck with a small fuel tank, so he can pile on as much as possible and stay within weight limitations.

Integrity to materials requires a sense of respect for both the natural world and the human-made world, and the philosophical understanding of how various materials want to work.

At the time of his largest paper profit, Mr. Kansas discussed, in a number of interviews, his material condition and his limited material wants.

When some Christians hear the term they think of two things: sexual desire or material wants, both of which are condemned outright by some shortsighted religious leaders.