Sentence examples for matter or a from inspiring English sources
Merriam-Webster simply defines it as "a discharge of fecal matter," "or a piece of solid waster that is released from the body," but unlike the other definitions of stool offered, it is strangely withheld when it comes to amplifying a potentially colorful word; the dictionary is queasy when it comes doody.
My being bored with someone or something can represent a trivial matter or a matter of great consequence.
In the two years of working with him, I've never had a phone call about a personnel matter or a disciplinary decision".
As I recently wrote in a lengthy piece for this newspaper, this is not a trivial matter, or a subject of concern only for journalists.
This is not a trivial matter, or a subject of concern solely to journalists: the overwhelming whiteness of the media strongly but silently conditions how Americans understand their own country and the rest of the world.
Even conservative couples who still believe a husband should be the head of the household have more egalitarian marriages than previous generations, and are less likely than their parents or grandparents to see things like domestic violence as a private matter or a normal part family life.
Design can't just be a laughing matter, or an intellectual one.
That something has to be categorized as an invention, defined loosely as any "art, process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter" or an improvement on an existing invention.
Yet, without a specific Supreme Court ruling on the matter or an amendment to clarify the Constitution, "there is no open and shut information," she said.
One study found a significant association between early gestational exposure to particulate matter (or an associated air pollutant) and intrauterine growth retardation (Dejmek et al 1999).
Mechanical trauma, irritation due to dust or airborne particulate matter, or an allergic cause of symptoms associated with viral contamination, rather than infection, is less likely given the delay to symptom onset, consistent with the incubation period for influenza.
