Sentence examples for something more functional from inspiring English sources

The relationship between Wharton and her former governess grew from one of youthful intimacy into something more functional.

The designer said he considered including diamond shapes in the glass (a witty take on extreme luxury) before settling on something more functional.

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.

The weird hardcore pads and samples are almost Terminator-ish, but the structure holds it all together into something more functional.

While Aristotle's ancestors were running around in goatskins and our own were shivering in woad, dynastic Egyptians were laying the ground for what would become modern society: codifying laws and science, popularising the written word, inventing an architecture and an art that were something more than functional.

The collective ethos has been abandoned for something more rigid and functional.

Up to 2006, there was progress in making Bosnia something of a more functional state.

When empty-nesting clients of New York designer Amanda Nisbet recently halted plans to move out of their open-format, family-friendly space in Manhattan to something cozier and more functional, Nisbet quickly moved to Plan B. That involved creating some semblance of their dream home in the one they already had.

And for something a bit more functional, Anna Margaret crafted pillows for people to sit on while inside the theater.

The next generation will be more sophisticated, more capable and more functional, something like hi-tech hearing aids, vision aids or even memory aids.

But deep within Apple's development labs, there are surely pie-in-the-sky concepts and gadgets that would inspire these same devs to expend their cycles working towards a more meaningful world rather than building something other than a more functional lockscreen or homescreen widgets.