In a sentence
Six example sentences with functioning, each labelled with its topic.
After the transplant the surgeons watched for eight hours to confirm the kidney was functioning before anyone left the ward.
Medicine
Only one of the four servers was still functioning, so the site stayed up but every page took nine seconds.
Technology
The restored marsh is functioning again: it absorbs the spring flood and the herons came back the following year.
Environment
Observers said the country had a functioning parliament again once committees met, bills passed, and the budget cleared on time.
Politics
The audit found only two functioning warehouses out of five, which explained why orders took three weeks to ship.
Business
The flea-market camera was still functioning after fifty years, its shutter clicking cleanly at every speed on the dial.
Photography
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