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256 examples of Functional in a sentence

It's merely functional, flat, and lacking in depth.
This was a rather unnerving look at an ostensibly functional family confronted by their daughter's druggie boyfriend.
It is a movie that contains no double-entendres, no almost-swear words like heck or darn, no parents who are functional idiots, and no crotch-smashing or flatulence jokes that are so prevalent in even the "best" kids movies these days.
We would go through many new starters, they would be expected to to learn how to fault find the various detritus that returns as non functional in one way or another from the stores.
Nobody with a fully functional brain would actually accept all that crap about the Vietnam War.
Unfortunately, the scriptwriters could not decide onwhether they wanted an insightful dissertation on the effects of HIV on a functional, appealing family or what the devastation HIV is on the victim - so it only hints at both.
The saddest part was that lame werewolf suit with the functional wang.
They were functional, but nothing stood out.
I'm quite functional in my personal and professional life.
The story is farfetched, the acting is merely functional, but it shows how imaginative effects can develop an entire visual narrative.
I could not find any dramatic line leading to the violent ending, everything seemed to be just pasted, mixing all ingredients without a functional recipe, some of it worked, animation fitted in quite smoothly, in fact I missed more of it, soundtrack is again quite suited to the action.
This movie walks you straight into the heart of India with its high family values and wonderful way of creating something functional out of anything available.
The Unsaid is slow and predictable, barely even qualifying as a functional thriller as it seems more interested in piquing the interest of bored housewives who think they're experts on psychology because they watch Oprah and Dr Phil on a daily basis.
'L.A. Confidential' was a longer and more complex book than Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia', yet Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland knew what was necessary to move the story forward without getting in 'over their heads' in making it a functional screenplay.
Then, the film switches to Porky's obsolete -- and barely functional -- model.
Yet this movie treats you to the minutiae of police work including extended questioning scenes of functional retard Germy and creep Orville who just wants to "beat his meat".
I'm Dangerous Tonight is a functional piece of entertainment.
But the rail yard remains the same, though non functional for the last 20 years.
The plot is typical and functional.
Shot hand held on 16mm with basic lighting the film has the look of a television special, the locations are functional as opposed to aesthetic and the synthesised score home-spun and cliched.
As the economist and philosopher Amartya Sen has put it, “health is a precondition for functional effectiveness across a whole range of human activities.”
The functional equivalents of elephants are Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East.
The basic functional units of all complex living organisms, it should be remembered, are cells , not genes.
The US itself has only one functional icebreaker.
If we continue to fill our cities – not just London and Los Angeles, but also Mumbai and Shanghai – with cars, we will be left with little mobility and barely functional cities.
The result was the ability to move functional genes from one organism to another virtually at will – the basis of modern biotechnology.
Most of the group is banking on the “transplant” strategy, in which the basic science of one layer is placed in another, tweaked and supplemented in order to be functional.
At the same time, it would avoid the complications of having multiple Europes – an option that may be attractive to veteran Eurocrats from a purely functional perspective, but soon becomes hopelessly complicated.
That would be the functional equivalent of a tax hike on beleaguered American families – hardly the solution that US politicians are promising.
In order to remain intact and functional, the country needs a political system and a society that persuade talented young people to stay in Russia – and that provides them with the education to develop their talent.
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