Sentence examples for functional like a from inspiring English sources

The kitchen itself is diminutive but functional, like a Volkswagen.

They include instruments used for serious research and objects that were as much decorative as functional, like a banjo-shaped barometer.

BMW has achieved something that looks totally cool (think Tumi luggage) and completely machine-age functional, like a Hobart commercial-grade blender.

And maybe it's not a work of art, but something more functional, like a passport photo of someone who's always on the road to the next gig.

"We want companies designing the plastic bottle to design it in the shape of something functional, like a roof tile". Instead of ending up in a landfill, she says, the plastic could be incorporated into an interlocking system of bottles that provide cover.

Characters should be individualised, but functional – like figures in a painting.

In production the question is always, 'Why aren't we shooting?' And the problem is usually either functional -- like a strike -- or something more personal, like an actor who doesn't feel comfortable shooting a scene unless he has a cotton shirt.

To Mr. Harms, the iMac is functional art, like a classic car.

They had to integrate functional components like a nose and lower eyelids, as well as different tissue types, including skin, muscles, bony structures, arteries, veins and nerves.

The report suggests that more functional improvements, like a new roof, can provide a bigger return than an elaborate kitchen remodel.

But so do the lush, fluorescent brushstrokes of Lisa Alvarado's acrylic-on-wood piece "Traditional Object 11". The workaday raw canvas of B. Wurtz's "Untitled (Three Red Circles Button Painting)" wears its functional overtones like a badge of honor.