8 sentences with 'materials'
Example sentences and phrases with the word materials and other words derived from it.
• « Overall, Byzantium traded its high-quality finished products to western Europe in exchange for raw materials such as ore and foodstuffs. »
• « In turn, textiles were the basis of the Industrial Revolution for direct practical reasons: raw materials were available in the American South through slave labour, and there was an endless market for textiles throughout Europe. »
• « These advances created a huge demand for the raw materials - rubber, minerals, cotton - that were components of the new technologies. »
• « In the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, the raw materials needed for production had been in Europe itself: deposits of coal and iron ore. »
• « However, the raw materials of the Second Industrial Revolution were largely located outside the older areas under European control, which meant that European commercial interests pressured their respective governments to seize as much overseas territory as possible. »
• « Simultaneously, the Soviets were busy extracting wealth and materials from their new puppets in Eastern Europe to help recover from their own war losses. »