Sentence examples for a functional sense from inspiring English sources

The digestive system, in a functional sense, starts at the mouth, with the teeth used to capture prey or collect plant foods.

A certain idea of the city is therefore assumed here both in a functional sense and as a desirable reality.

In a functional sense, the T-Rex has staked a claim in some of the last vehicular wilderness, halfway between an elemental roadster (think Mazda MX-5) and a touring motorcycle.

Not true in a functional sense, but true as a standard toward which the media should ever be mindful.

The answer seems to be, much of what makes for a nourishing existence: wide networks of kinship, respectful relations with nature, and a functional sense of the extramundane.

Drunk people have their own rhythm, which, for all the spills and accidental ass grabs, conforms to a functional sense of collective motion which makes a large mass of them difficult to navigate using regular human ambulation.

While distinctly a great economic force, it is not in any functional sense a great power. .

They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional sense, and on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation.

Animals protected from birth against infections never develop any functional sense of immunologic self (19 ).

After three years of trying, during which time her beliefs calcified and my sense of self was enriched, I know it isn't possible, which leaves me wondering how I'm supposed to be a good son to a mother who's in a very functional sense dead to me.

A strict material implication in its truth functional sense means that A is false or B is true [42].