IMMATERIAL in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for IMMATERIAL, such as:

1. The body is material but the soul is immaterial.
2. The condition of the car is quite immaterial as long as it works.
3. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden of immaterial pleasures.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMMATERIAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
immaterial
 a.  without material form or substance
 a.  not pertinent to the matter under consideration
Classic Sentence:
1  This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
2  On the material side the dinner was a success; it was no less so on the immaterial.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 9
3  Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
4  Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
5  It is quite immaterial to me," said Monte Cristo, "and it was very unnecessary to disturb me at the opera for such a trifle.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.
6  "Of course, it's immaterial to me," she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
7  Both bore languidly the indefinable burden of immaterial pleasures.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS
8  I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mist-like transience of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Example Sentence:
1  The condition of the car is quite immaterial as long as it works.
2  The body is material but the soul is immaterial.