FUNCTIONING in a Sentence

Learn FUNCTIONING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
99 example sentences for FUNCTIONING, such as:
1. His brain seems to be functioning normally.
2. And the masses are a functioning of another part of fate.
3. The village hall is given over to civic functions and meetings.
4. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an inspector.
5. The group has now become a fully functioning political organization.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FUNCTIONING
functioning
 n.  a relation such that one thing is dependent on another
 n.  what something is used for
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  And the masses are a functioning of another part of fate.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
2  It is not the individuals that make an aristocracy: it is the functioning of the aristocratic whole.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
3  But when it comes to expressive or executive functioning, I believe there is a gulf and an absolute one, between the ruling and the serving classes.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
4  Old Joe and his army would not let even one Yankee get south of Dalton, for too much depended on the undisturbed functioning of Georgia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  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
6  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
7  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.
8  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.
9  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
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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...
14  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
15  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.
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  His brain seems to be functioning normally.
2  The group has now become a fully functioning political organization.
3  This brings us to another group of alleged animal rights which relate to its functioning as a biological organism.
4  The condition ranges in severity from a mild degree of poor functioning to complete kidney failure.
5  Yes, it is a functioning flashlight; you should take it.
6  The village hall is given over to civic functions and meetings.
7  Probably all know that a fish could drown, if the functions of the gills fail.
8  During hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered.
9  Existing arrangements contain latent functions that can be neither seen nor replaced by the reformer.
10  And "mate" is also handy at official functions when you can't remember a name.
11  In large cabinet shops furnished with hi-tech computer-controlled equipment, cabinetmaker may specialize only in one or two of the functions listed.
12  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.
13  Though usually described as a digestive gland, the liver has other functions of equal or greater importance.
14  Human physiology is the science of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of humans in good health, their organs, and the cells.
15  In general, reliability is the ability of a system to perform its functions in routine circumstances, as well as hostile or unexpected circumstances.