functional

In a sentence

Six example sentences with functional, each labelled with its topic.

• Every shelf in the cabin is functional, holding either firewood, boots, or the pans that hang above the stove.

  Architecture

• The potter insists her bowls stay functional, so every glaze she uses survives a dishwasher and a hot oven.

  Art

• Only the camera was functional on the cracked prototype, so the demo showed photographs and nothing else.

  Technology

• The restaurant kitchen is purely functional: steel counters, hooks for every pan, and nothing on the walls but a clock.

  Cooking

• The new prosthetic hand is fully functional, letting the patient grip a cup, turn a key, and type slowly.

  Medicine

• Investors asked for a functional prototype rather than slides, so the team built one that processed real orders by Friday.

  Startups

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More Academic words

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• somewhat
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