How to Use raw material in a Sentence

raw material

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  • His experiences during the war were the raw material for the story.
  • These large areas of space that are full of the raw materials needed to create stars–gas, dust, and energy.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
  • On top of that, the Revive is crafted from a renewable raw material.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
  • That’s sent chocolate prices soaring as producers have passed the higher raw material costs on to consumers—and Tony’s hasn’t been spared.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The studies so far have involved giving the raw material to animals; that's not the same as applying a diluted version to the skin.
    — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 31 May 2022
  • Some 70% of new domestic steel comes from scrap melted in mills with electric arc furnaces that have lower carbon emissions than mills that use raw materials.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Manufacturing processes are part of many industries and are comprised of various steps that turn raw materials into finished goods or products.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • That's largely due to the high cost of the raw materials to make the battery.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The raw material, called hurd, is the inner, woody core of the hemp plant, chipped into small pieces.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The latter is a way for readers to connect with the raw materials that the essences come from.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The name Matiere Premiere translates to ‘raw material,’ which is the uniting theme in the line.
    — Sable Yong, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The raw material changed and the winemakers had to adapt on how to handle that fruit and how to ferment it.
    — Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • It is made from the same raw materials as tequila and mixed up in the same part of Mexico.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Those raw materials were the feedstock of tons of concrete, used to build roads.
    — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2024
  • The secret, though, was the raw material of sound, his tone, his way of finding a life-force in every note.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Nike and Adidas and the other sneaker makers, of course, provide the raw material that is at the heart of the business.
    — oregonlive, 4 June 2022
  • That cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
  • And that can result in a tonal jumble like Loot, which feels like a lot of great raw material in search of a series to make sense of it all(*).
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2022
  • That said, of the top 10 exports, only one is truly a raw material: Oil.
    — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • The brand’s website lists the exact percentages of raw materials used in each scent.
    — Jane Daly, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 July 2023
  • Clay is the medium most often encountered in Leigh’s art, whether in glazed form or as the raw material for works then cast in bronze.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
  • Before the war, roughly half its raw materials, like meat and chicken meal, came from abroad.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Piantedosi cited the Golden Gloss raw material from Lyons as the root cause of the recall.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The shutdown may push up the cost of the raw material, which is a key component in electric car batteries.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Brown-Forman has raised prices across its suite of products as the cost of raw materials has jumped, and consumers may no longer be willing to pay.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Carrefour is putting stickers on products that have shrunk in size but cost more even though raw materials prices have eased.
    — Reuters, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
  • This is the basic raw material of teen movies, but the twists and tweaks to which they’re subjected here reveal more contrivance than insight.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The raw material for the first such structure is already on the Moon: the surface layer of soil, or regolith (PDF) to geologists.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Supplies of raw materials from many years ago, after all, are just as useful as supplies produced more recently.
    — Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • Recycling glass reduces energy consumption, air pollution and the use of raw materials to make new glass.
    — Alex Golden, Axios, 10 July 2024

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