Sentence examples for functioning only from inspiring English sources

This mutation will inevitably result in the cell functioning only marginally or not at all.

The machines have been kept functioning only through ersatz replacement parts cobbled together by local machine shops.

Searches on various car-shopping Web sites for Saab dealers in my area yielded listings for dealerships that had already closed or were functioning only as service centers.

But House Republicans, worried about possible accusations of leaving town without completing their tasks, decided to approve keeping those government departments functioning only day by day and, then, opted to stay in town.

They enjoy their liquor more easily than they do their women (with the exception of Tara, the women here stay in the kitchen or under the sheets, functioning only as subjects of lust or irritation) and in general are miserable.

Many critics have asserted that Tarantino's characters are hollow, cartoonish figures (Forster's and Grier's characters are exceptions), functioning only as hooks on which various clever jokes can be hung.

They still function only because workers have cannibalized parts.

The United States military can function only as an extension of a free and open society.

In general, dispose of anything that functions only as a rest or a bridge.

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

LiveTV's air-to-ground cellular system, however, functions only over the continental United States.