FUNCTIONAL in a Sentence

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99 example sentences for FUNCTIONAL, such as:
1. The village hall is given over to civic functions and meetings.
2. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an inspector.
3. Probably all know that a fish could drown, if the functions of the gills fail.
4. During hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered.
5. I need a more functional bottle and a filter is a good addition to any daily water bottle.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FUNCTIONAL
functional
 a.  (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
 a.  fit or ready for use or service
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  Such a society functions admirably in the large production of cheap automobiles, dollar watches, and safety razors.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their functions is gone through.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. Postscript.
4  Immemorial to all his order, this investiture alone will adequately protect him, while employed in the peculiar functions of his office.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 95. The Cassock.
5  Gamut received his pitch-pipe with as strong an expression of pleasure as he believed compatible with the grave functions he exercised.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
6  Thus unequivocally called on to exercise the functions of his assumed character, Heyward was apprehensive that the smallest delay might prove dangerous.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
7  he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an inspector.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
8  Javert is an estimable man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but important functions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
9  It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the principal lodger, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who had let him the lodging on Christmas eve.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
10  The most perplexing and least successful part of the Bureau's work lay in the exercise of its judicial functions.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
11  I have met him many times since then, both at public functions and at his private residence in Princeton, and the more I see of him the more I admire him.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
12  Very soon after reaching London we were flooded with invitations to attend all manner of social functions, and a great many invitations came to me asking that I deliver public addresses.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI.
13  Again, everything on his estate is made to perform at least three or four different functions.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
14  She did these things not under any external impulse as people in the full vigor of life do, when behind the purpose for which they strive that of exercising their functions remains unnoticed.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XII
15  He advised my attending certain places in London, for the acquisition of such mere rudiments as I wanted, and my investing him with the functions of explainer and director of all my studies.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  This sofa has a two tone finish which makes it not only functional but also adaptable to any contemporary interior design.
2  It provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters.
3  An electric power distribution bus(or cable) that supplies functional units or electronic devices.
4  I need a more functional bottle and a filter is a good addition to any daily water bottle.
5  The estimated cost of staffing and maintaining a functional pest management center is approximately 1 million dollars per year.
6  The stronger argument is a functional one, that brains do not respond to damage like typical interactive systems.
7  The village hall is given over to civic functions and meetings.
8  Probably all know that a fish could drown, if the functions of the gills fail.
9  During hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered.
10  Existing arrangements contain latent functions that can be neither seen nor replaced by the reformer.
11  And "mate" is also handy at official functions when you can't remember a name.
12  In large cabinet shops furnished with hi-tech computer-controlled equipment, cabinetmaker may specialize only in one or two of the functions listed.
13  The work, funded by the European Union, is aimed at finding out exactly how the Lagoon functions before the construction of a Thames-style barrier of steel gates.
14  Though usually described as a digestive gland, the liver has other functions of equal or greater importance.
15  Human physiology is the science of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of humans in good health, their organs, and the cells.