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

And though it feels unkind to say Radcliffe makes a stellar semifunctional corpse, it’s true: His particular stiffness feels carefully calibrated, an evolving trait that makes the character both stranger and more likable.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2016

It includes three shunts—the ductus venosus, the foramen ovale, and the ductus arteriosus—that enable it to bypass the semifunctional liver and pulmonary circuit until after childbirth.

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