How to use "material" in a sentence

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity

There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority; but surely that difference is not a very material one

They concern, thank God, only material things

Recognition of that falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing

Near the piece of material, in white chalk on the wall, was a message:

Because so much material in the hotel's files was extremely confidential information about high rollers, and because the Pyramid's list of favored customers would be of enormous value to competitors, only approved people could obtain this data, and a record was kept of everyone who accessed it

She had paged through only two of the magazines Danny had bought, the first two, when she had been trying to make up her mind whether such unusual reading material could have any harmful effects on him

They leaned in from opposite sides of the booth and read the material silently:

Evans been given, any material relating to military research installations in the Sierra Nevada Mountains?

They read quickly through the remaining material, but none of it was enlightening

I do some comedy lines in the act, and I use the recorder to develop new material, correct problems with my timing."

After all those months and all those meetings and all those network-approved writers, we had too little material to launch a series, regardless of whether it was titled From the Tormented Mind of Dean Koontz or Sitting in the Dark with Dean and Roaches or just Deaniac

They only used the Heat-Ray from time to time that night, either because they had a limited supply of material for its production or because they did not want to destroy the country, but only to defeat its people

It was a large space, with enormous machines here and there within it, great piles of material and strange buildings