Sentence examples for imperfect but functional from inspiring English sources

My imperfect but functional solution: take a picture and type it, complete with å's and ø's, into Google Translate when I got home.

This means that imperfect but functional novelties can provide important selective advantages before micro-evolutionary processes have had an opportunity to fine-tune them.

At least the sequence box TGACC is present in the CrAT L-carnitine binding site, therefore we propose in analogy to the CPT2 gene this sequence element being a further imperfect but functional PPRE site.

Nothing fancy, but functional".

But "functional" from whose perspective?

AMENITIES Bare-bones, but functional.

The framework is silly but functional.

To which I added: "But functional".

But functional it is.

It's ugly, but functional.

Here's an imperfect but instructive comparison.