How to Use raw material in a Sentence
raw material
noun- His experiences during the war were the raw material for the story.
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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
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On top of that, the Revive is crafted from a renewable raw material.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The name Matiere Premiere translates to ‘raw material,’ which is the uniting theme in the line.
—Sable Yong, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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Those raw materials were the feedstock of tons of concrete, used to build roads.
—Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2024
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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
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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
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That cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
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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
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That said, of the top 10 exports, only one is truly a raw material: Oil.
—Ken Roberts, Forbes, 28 June 2022
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The brand’s website lists the exact percentages of raw materials used in each scent.
—Jane Daly, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 July 2023
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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
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Before the war, roughly half its raw materials, like meat and chicken meal, came from abroad.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
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Piantedosi cited the Golden Gloss raw material from Lyons as the root cause of the recall.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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