Example Sentences

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Today the 40-square-mile island, home to 2,000 people, has no hospital or dentist, one gas station, one semifunctional A.T.M. and a few small grocery stores.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2023

They still need to be connected to a phone to be their most useful, and they only reach semifunctional independence as an LTE model.

From The Verge • Aug. 31, 2018

After three weeks of coding, I had a semifunctional email client.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2015

Although the fetal liver is semifunctional, the fetal lungs are nonfunctional.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Compared to the patient corpora-building and discussion of naïve Bayesian variants in the scientific antispam project, the hackers’ antispam initiative was almost hilariously ramshackle, cheap, fast, semifunctional, and out of control.

From Scientific American • Jun. 18, 2013