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99 example sentences for FUNCTIONAL, such as:

1. To live is to function.
2. In your new job you will perform a variety of functions.
3. The function of the veins is to carry blood to the heart.
4. She strove to perform all her wifely functions perfectly.
5. I couldn't get my brain to function or coordinate my muscles.

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 Meanings and Examples of FUNCTIONAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
functional
 a.  useful; in good working order
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 Mitche
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)
16  In general, reliability is the ability of a system to perform its functions in routine circumstances, as well as hostile or unexpected circumstances.
17  Cash machines automate two basic functions of a bank - deposits and withdrawals.
18  In your new job you will perform a variety of functions.
19  This model does not describe accurately the way a market economy actually functions.
20  Given the way your organization functions when it functions best, consider how a personnel or labor crisis situation would be handled.
21  Attempts to correlate specific language functions with particular parts of the brain have not advanced very far.
22  She strove to perform all her wifely functions perfectly.
23  That notary is authorised to perform the certain legal functions.
24  The Labour party's draft document, which it did not dare to publish, refers to London policing functions.
25  They suggest the sensitive spots play a major part in the aquatic reptiles' impressive reaction times and perform some of the tactile functions of human hands.
26  Toward a day finally to achieve the ultimate goal of moving enough, but every step as the goal, to make it as a step function.
27  To live is to function.
28  The function of the veins is to carry blood to the heart.
29  I couldn't get my brain to function or coordinate my muscles.
30  A flat electroencephalogram indicates a loss of brain function.