Sentence examples similar to defective yet serviceable from inspiring English sources
The china is mismatched yet serviceable, but the flimsy flatware could be from the school cafeteria -- cutting through a snowpea with a fork shouldn't hurt your hand.
The melodies trill over the upper end of the keyboard, a bit out of tune yet serviceable; but in the lower end, where there's a dense cluster of nonfunctioning keys, tunes dissolve into an abstraction of thunks and pings.
Grammatically defective, yet supremely descriptive.
Perhaps she sees something human inside them that tugs at her heartstrings, something slightly defective yet utterly lovable -- and hungry for love.
However, biochemical studies revealed that the double mutant remained catalytically defective, yet kinase function was restored in vivo.
The report, which was leaked to BBC London, outlines dozens of defective faults yet to be fixed.
Gresham can split outside to exploit mismatches against linebackers yet still be a serviceable run-blocker when lined up along the front line.
However, functional analyses with homozygous T-DNA insertional lines of these genes has not yet identified defective phenotypes [66].
Service was serviceable, if inconsistent.
The yeast strain was sensitive to a spectrum of drugs, yet had the defective MSH2 gene.
