How to Use matter in a Sentence

matter

1 of 2 noun
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  • He has a few personal matters to deal with.
  • Can matter and energy be changed into each other?
  • Disagreement is one thing, but accusations of lying are a different matter altogether!
  • Williams didn’t care what any lawyers had to say about the matter.
    — oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The truth of the matter is that there has been content to carry us.
    — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 10 May 2020
  • The facts of the matter are there is a reality to that.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The fact of the matter is that his wife Patti has a vote too.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Because the fact of the matter is all that dirt and grime has to go somewhere.
    — Country Living, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Zhukovskyy and his lawyer have yet to comment on the matter.
    — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2019
  • There’s a common theme among some of the court matters.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 23 June 2018
  • But even the fact Southgate is in the job is a matter of luck.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 10 July 2018
  • Lewis couldn’t feel any part of his leg for that matter.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Trump said in one of a series of morning tweets on the matter.
    — Julie Hirschfeld Davis, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Friend-of-the-court briefs took an even broader view of the matter.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The pain dissipates in a matter of days, and that’s it.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2020
  • This makes more sense to us as a way that matter might behave.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
  • The next step would then be how Goodell rules on the matter.
    — Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • The pope agreed to launch one, but then proceeded to drag his feet on the matter.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 3 July 2018
  • Then there was the matter of understanding what was in the bill.
    — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • How will that personal matter be dealt with on the show?
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
  • As a matter of sheer numbers, there are just not enough kids to do such a thing.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2021
  • Strides are good, but the end goal should be winning the vital games that matter.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2021
  • On second thought, Lamb does have a few words on the matter.
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2021
  • No, not a drug dealer, which was a matter of bad taste.
    — Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Just a matter of getting healthy and getting strong in all the right areas.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Exactly why the rats took to hide and seek so well is a matter of debate.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The virus killed 37 people linked to the home in a matter of weeks.
    — Michael Schulson/undark, Popular Science, 22 June 2020
  • Some of this is not a matter of his mind alone: there are indeed changes afoot in his life.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Joshua Gray was matter of fact as to what needs to improve from his unit.
    — oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Whether the change has been better or worse is a matter of perspective.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
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matter

2 of 2 verb
  • It may not matter to you, but it matters a lot to me!
  • But in the era of meme stocks, that doesn’t seem to matter.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 3 June 2021
  • That month mattered to her, and to all of them, and maybe to you.
    — Chavi Eve Karkowsky, Slate Magazine, 30 Oct. 2017
  • But that didn’t matter, the tastes of home were enough.
    — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2020
  • That does not matter as a trip to the league’s hottest team on the road awaits them.
    — Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • But debate rages as to which matters more in the ocean.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
  • But money goals should be tied to the things that matter most to you.
    — Nerdwallet, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Their games matter now, and fans will tune in to watch them.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 16 June 2021
  • What matters most to him is to feel and live like a Brit.
    — Verena Dobnik, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
  • All that matters though is our friend is safe and alive!
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Hands on a clock didn’t seem to matter much at the moment.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Those who tried found that the things that used to matter to them no longer did in the same way.
    — Barry J. Jacobs, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 July 2018
  • That’s all that’s going to matter in the grand scheme of things.
    — Nolan King, MMA Junkie, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Make your voice heard on the issues that matter to you.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But the other point here is that next time, the courts may not matter.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But if none of that matters to you, this might: sloths.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 4 Mar. 2020
  • But what mattered most was the dash between those years.
    — Tom Green, AL.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • And that was all that mattered in my first moments as a mom.
    — Glamour, 9 Jan. 2020
  • None of these claims are true, but that doesn’t matter.
    — Author: Lisa Rein, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The fact that her life didn’t matter in this verdict is painful.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • That means raising its level of play in the games that matter most.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2022
  • That matters all the more in a world as chaotic as today’s.
    — Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024
  • That crime in the city over all was still at historic lows didn’t matter.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 23 June 2021
  • And in a fair and rational world, none of it would matter.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Ilga led a simple life which was rich in the things that matter most.
    — courant.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Is there any chance that some of the players just feel like this year doesn't matter?
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2020
  • All that mattered was to be near Bhagwan and do his work.
    — Susan Harfouche, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But in wrestling, body builds and whatnot don’t matter.
    — David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2019
  • None of my life back on campus seemed to matter anymore.
    — Catarina Buchatskiy, CNN, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Whether that’s climate change or a run of bad luck doesn’t matter to him.
    — Josh Haner, National Geographic, 29 June 2018

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