Sentence examples for ceased to be functional from inspiring English sources
The New Yorker, March 28 , 1964P. 29 This was the Winter of Dark Glasses; the year when the wearing of shaded spectacles ceased to be seasonal, ceased to be functional, in fact, to have anything much to do with sunshine.
By Roger Angell The New Yorker, March 28 , 1964P. 29 This was the Winter of Dark Glasses; the year when the wearing of shaded spectacles ceased to be seasonal, ceased to be functional, in fact, to have anything much to do with sunshine.
"They do cease to be functional," Mr. McKinney said, "and some people will resist sleep".
Unless a genomic functionality is actively protected by selection, it will accumulate deleterious mutations and will cease to be functional.
Although some copies may accumulate deleterious mutations and eventually cease to be functional (becoming pseudogenes), others may acquire, by chance, beneficial mutations and evolve under positive selection.
Contacts ceased to be personal.
Ahmet ceased to be jaunty.
But that has ceased to be".
Lunch hour ceased to be so pleasant.
We had recently ceased to be twins.
