Example Sentences

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As Shiner has pointed out, sometimes that means asking the West’s own everyday objects to serve the functionless functions of fArt.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2023

Developers pleaded with city, county and state officials for a $300 million bailout, warning the project could halt mid-construction, leaving a functionless cement and steel skeleton, looming over prime downtown real estate.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2023

And $1,000 for the printer plus $43 for each spool of filament is a hefty price to pay for a functionless, semidecorative piece of plastic I could buy for like 23 cents.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2014

Much, perhaps most, of the DNA in our genomes—despite being occasionally transcribed, and thus recorded in ENCODE—is still functionless “junk DNA.”

From Scientific American • Dec. 20, 2012

This is notably the case, for example, with the reproductive organs which, though developed during the life of the embryo, remain functionless until the period of adolescence.

From Embryology The Beginnings of Life by Leighton, Gerald R.