Sentence examples for function only from inspiring English sources

They still function only because workers have cannibalized parts.

Second, brokers should be allowed to function only as agents, not as dealers.

However, electoral democracies function only according to one principle, which is electoral incentive.

An insurance company could function only if it was able to control its exposure to loss.

A community like Harvard can function only when each group respects the right of others to disagree.

We all realized that this traditional family model could function only in an imaginary world, like Middle-earth".

The teeth are simple cones that function only for grasping, not chewing.

In his view, the greatest architect of the twentieth century was Mies van der Rohe, in whose work form followed function only superficially, if at all.

The biennale has a provisional feel to it: installations are constantly being rearranged and repaired, and video projections function only sporadically.

In other words, the Kursk and nine other huge nuclear submarines could function only as long as they could avoid accidents.

The bottom line is that the use of idioms in language is an excellent example of how we aren't built to function only logically.