Sentence examples for try to function from inspiring English sources

Classical music concerts try to function as living art while operating under rules at least 150 years old.

So they can't just do anything, but within this kind of controlled freedom is where I basically try to function really.

Instead, the company would try to function less as a collection of separate businesses, and more as a single corporate entity.

More than a month after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico on a path of destruction that spared no region, race or class, residents of the island have found their creativity stretched to the limit as they try to function without many amenities of the modern world.

Train our young to live comfortably inside their own heads, before they try to function in this mad corner of a cockeyed world.

At some point, Britney -- whether she does or doesn't have a psychological disorder -- should be allowed to try to function as an adult.

"It doubts its purpose," he said, "because for decades it's been trying to function journalistically.

I was trying to function, but I did miss some work.

Despite the chaos of trying to function without enough resources, I know I still have a hugely rewarding job.

"Failure" may misleadingly imply that a government is trying to function but not managing.

I'm not trying to function as if I can see because I never have".