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How to use raw in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, adverb, noun

Raw means (of food) Not cooked. Example: “There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.”

Examples of raw by meaning

adjective(of food) Not cooked.

  • There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.
  • He ate raw beef for dinner.
  • A flying fish is excellent to eat raw and I would not have to cut him up.1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 66

adjectiveSubsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.

  • I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.

adjectiveNot treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.).

  • raw cane sugar
  • Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent.1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63

adjectiveHaving had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.

  • a raw wound
  • ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

adjectiveNew or inexperienced.

  • a raw beginner

adjectiveCrude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

  • a raw voice

adjectiveUncorrected, without analysis.

  • What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010

adjectiveUnpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather).

  • a raw wind

More sentences with raw

  • The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms.From the entry beg
  • The man became infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish.From the entry fluke
  • Petroleum is the raw material refined into various fuels and needed for countless chemicals.From the entry raw material
  • The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers.From the entry raw material
  • Bacon is very fatty when raw; however, most of the fat will render during cooking.From the entry render
  • Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.From the entry refined
  • The raw recruits helped one another get over the first few days.From the entry one another
  • It's not a good idea to refreeze raw meat once it has been thawed.From the entry refreeze
  • That bucket of raw prawns you left in the sun is a bit on the nose.From the entry on the nose
  • The system allowed raw data to wel into a finished report.From the entry wel
  • Torrefied biomass is more brittle than raw biomass and has a higher carbon content.From the entry torrefied
  • She looked perplexedly at the raw meat her waiter had set in front of her.From the entry perplexedly
  • They used raw meat to draw the beast out of the cave.From the entry draw out
  • The manager had to put out the fire after a raw hamburger was served to a customer.From the entry put out a fire
  • The raw signal data was subjected to a baseline correction process to subtract the sensor's offset and drift variations.From the entry offset
  • The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.From the entry refined
  • The country brings in raw materials from overseas.From the entry bring in
  • His favorite part of making preserves with his mother was when he got to smush the raw fruit with the pestle.From the entry smush
  • Rather than using a framework, he's just raw dogging HTML.From the entry raw dog
  • The water from this river should not be considered potable without disinfection: you may be OK if you drink it raw, but you're gambling if you do so.From the entry potable
  • You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix.From the entry average
  • Fleeting notes serve as raw material for literature notes and permanent notes.2025 June 30, Lenker, Mark, The Human Relationship with Information. From the entry fleeting note
  • The bacteria which is naturally present in raw skin or hide gives leather it strength and flexibility.2023 February 21, U. Tejonmayam, “This leather is fashioned in a lab”, in The Times of India, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2023. From the entry Ayyadurai
  • This place bustles with the fast-growing traffic of goods and raw materials moving between the two countries.2023 July 20, Anmol Mukhia, “Revisiting the case of ‘blood-brothers’: A constructivist approach in North Korea-China relations”, in…. From the entry Andong
  • No, you’re not always “the product” on social media; sometimes you’re the raw material.2022 March 27, Katherine Alejandra Cross, “Why Is the Internet So Exhausting? Blame Your Crowdsourced Bosses”, in WIRED, archived from the…. From the entry sousveillance
  • Raw coal was from Gaoping, Shanxi Province, dominated by powder anthracite.2022, Yuan Wang, Cuifeng Du, Jiuzhu Wang, Huaiyu Li, “Field Application of Mine Dust Suppression”, in Chemical Dust Suppression Technology…. From the entry Zhongzhan
  • Grandpa nods, and I watch, as the boy breaks off a stalk, and eats it raw!2022, Susan E. Erikson, My Mother and Other New Englanders: A Legacy of Faith, Wipf and Stock Publishers. From the entry rhubab
  • Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?2020, Barack Obama, A Promised Land, Crown. From the entry gauzy

Meaning of raw

  1. adjective (of food) Not cooked.
  2. adjective Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
  3. adjective Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.).

Full definition of raw

Questions about raw in a sentence

How do you use raw in a sentence?
Raw is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.”
What is a short sentence with raw?
“a raw beginner”
What does raw mean?
Raw means (of food) Not cooked.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raw (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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