Making up is an art where you use your own body as material.

In time, she began using newspaper as an artistic material.

Leather is the skin of an animal, used as a material.

This does not mean that most American writers have used baseball as raw material.

Deeply religious, Price frequently used the music of the black church as material for her arrangements.

However, many of the stones were used as material for the stone walls built nearby.

Over time locals carried off their stones to use as material for new buildings.

By the 18th century the castle was being used as material for building walls and cottages in the area.

And shamelessly, he would have used it as material for his column.

For example in computer games, it is often used as material for making weapons and items.