Sentence examples for a real functioning from inspiring English sources

It's a real, functioning town.

"It could really take them back to the olden days when it was a real, functioning place".

It looks stunning, conveys a sense of a real, functioning world, is clearly well structured and, in general is an RPG-lover's dream.

That seemed like a real lost opportunity to me, so I vowed to help the school set up a real, functioning library.

"I was very interested in issues of space and sustainability," he said, "and let's just say my thesis — a real, functioning aviary, built inside a Judith Leiber handbag — did not go unnoticed.

There is debate among ecologists about the extent to which the island's cloud forest is a real, functioning ecosystem, one that embodies emergent relationships between plants, herbivores, pollinators and so on that have never been seen before, and the extent to which it is simply a pastiche, stitching together bits of ecosystems from elsewhere.

"Bookends are meant to perform a real function," he said.

More important, the game made me happy; it had served a real function.

It protects servers who rely on tips for the bulk of their income, so in that sense it has a real function and value.

But of course the local shop – providing a real function within the community – does sometimes fail with the arrival of a supermarket down the road, and the same might be true about the arts.

Sarbanes-Oxley goes a long way toward giving the members of the audit committee a real function (and "teeth") beyond the historical rubber-stamping of the independent auditor's work.