FUNCTIONING in a Sentence

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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. And the masses are a functioning of another part of fate.

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 Meanings and Examples of FUNCTIONING
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functioning
 n.  operation; manipulation; performing or able to perform its regular function
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)
16  Cash machines automate two basic functions of a bank - deposits and withdrawals.
17  In your new job you will perform a variety of functions.
18  This model does not describe accurately the way a market economy actually functions.
19  Given the way your organization functions when it functions best, consider how a personnel or labor crisis situation would be handled.
20  Attempts to correlate specific language functions with particular parts of the brain have not advanced very far.
21  She strove to perform all her wifely functions perfectly.
22  That notary is authorised to perform the certain legal functions.
23  The Labour party's draft document, which it did not dare to publish, refers to London policing functions.
24  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.
25  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.
26  To live is to function.
27  The function of the veins is to carry blood to the heart.
28  I couldn't get my brain to function or coordinate my muscles.
29  A flat electroencephalogram indicates a loss of brain function.
30  Emotional responses are a function of the right hemisphere of the brain.