Example Sentences

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Communications links to the city, which had functioned despite the flood, were shut down on Tuesday morning.

From Reuters • Sep. 19, 2023

Until the property’s owner, Truist bank, fenced it off in March, the plaza for decades had functioned as a convenient, if not universally appreciated, town square that featured a Saturday morning farmers market.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2022

Some of the trucks, which had functioned as snow-plow vehicles in the winter, were also destroyed.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2020

Along with Mr. Kelly and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Mr. Tillerson had functioned as part of a triumvirate that was viewed as a brake on Mr. Trump.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2018

It was when all the rules by which the traditional economy had functioned were broken and remade.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell