Sentence examples for useful and functional from inspiring English sources

From a baroque, leaf-cut decanter by Ludwig Lobmeyr to the thin, attenuated muslin glass forms that have dominated the past half century, Muehling primarily chose pieces meant for celebration and ritual; the great thing about Lobmeyr, he says, is "they may be opulent and insanely expensive, but for the most part the pieces are useful and functional drinking glasses".

With the onset of material design, users also expect their products to be beautiful and simple, not just useful and functional.

A recent study in the education studies of the Spanish universities concluded that teachers perceive that digital devices can be useful and functional from a didactic perspective.

For example, in fashion, ugly can be used as a way to make an impact and a tool for fashion change: something useful and functional is outdated, turned ugly, to be replaced with something new and beautiful.

And just how useful and functional is the "UCLA" station when it's not really near UCLA?

Another challenge was to take data which is based on probabilities and show the sector that it could be presented in a useful and functional manner. .

The PSP web server, which integrates a wide variety of useful analytical and functional tools, has been developed to rapidly identify orthologous coding genes under positive selection across up to thirty user-selected or user-supplied prokaryotic genomes.

"Time and again," she writes, "experts urged the schools to de-emphasize reading, writing, history, mathematics and science; to drop foreign languages; to replace history with social studies; to eliminate high-quality literature and substitute for it uninspired scraps from textbooks; and to teach only what was useful and immediately functional".

An important aspect of the database is to provide a useful and comprehensive functional annotation of epigenetic factors.

Integration of DNA sequences into a genome by homologous recombination is a very useful and widely used functional genomics tool for generating gene knock-out mutants.

The ability to design sequences compatible with a fold may also be useful in structural and functional genomics by expanding the range of proteins used for fold recognition and for the identification of functionally important domains from multiple sequence alignments.