Sentence examples for functional to from inspiring English sources

Dysfunctional, after all, cannot function unless there is something functional to set it against, even if it's only a voiced and penetrating despair.

Below is the porte-cochere -- functional to this day.

Well, he continued, organisms are like pocket watches — too complexly functional to be an accident.

The sets, all by Derek McLane, ranged from functional to ingenious to beautiful.

In industrial TriBeCa, water towers have expanded from the functional to the decorative.

It may take a few years for Congress to become sufficiently functional to tackle this problem.

It can be functional to the point of being almost invisible.

The insurance businesses of A.I.G. did not falter during the financial crisis, and remain solvent and functional to this day.

But then, Mr. Miller said, the process of writing plays is basically functional, to provide guideposts for actors.

Works will range from functional to decorative, whimsical to confrontational, representing numerous cultures and a diversity of styles.

Giving people something functional to use, then observing and measuring how they use it, is one of the best research methods available to you.