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.
  • As a person who works with precious stones, her creative work is rooted in raw material.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Any slight burp in the path from raw material to the finished product in consumer’s hands causes a shortage.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The solar system had quieted down by then, so where would Saturn have gotten the raw material?
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Oil is refined into fuel for heating and driving as well as being a raw material for industry.
    — CBS News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The company is raising the price of one typical raw material by about 20%.
    — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
  • That decline may also be in part due to price hikes the company put in place to offset the rising costs of raw materials, such as cocoa and sugar.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 31 July 2024
  • According to Ferrero, the salmonella outbreak was the result of a filter at an outlet from two raw material tanks.
    — Serena Coady, SELF, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Supply chain disruptions and raw material costs are also weighing on Kern, which has about 40 million euros in annual sales.
    — William Wilkes, Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Pharma interests that rely on the companies for testing, raw materials and other services also weighed in on the legislation.
    — Peter Sullivan, Axios, 23 July 2024
  • Though imports of Russian nickel haven’t technically been prohibited by sanctions, the conflict has spiked the global price of the raw material.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
  • 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 war in Ukraine has sparked fears of a fall in raw material exports from the region.
    — Anna Cooban and Inke Kappeler, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
  • 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

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