FUNCTION in a Sentence

Learn FUNCTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

99 example sentences for FUNCTION, such as:

1. the function of real philosophy.
2. Yes, many a function calls for fulfilment.
3. Aristocracy is a function, a part of fate.
4. The machine won't function properly if you don't oil it well.
5. The village hall is given over to civic functions and meetings.

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 Meanings and Examples of FUNCTION
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function
 n.  act of executing or performing any duty; assigned duty or activity
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  First, however, his preparations for that function occupied a space of over two hours, and necessitated an attention to his toilet of a kind not commonly seen.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  Yes, many a function calls for fulfilment.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
3  Thenceforth all extraneous thoughts and considerations were laid aside in favour of preparing for the coming function.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
4  Everything in life fulfils its function, and Chichikov's tour in search of a fortune was carried out so successfully that not a little money passed into his pockets.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
5  Everything has its proper function, and pursues its proper course.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
6  He enveloped in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, from the prime minister to the rural policeman.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
7  To make reparation is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
8  the function of real philosophy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
9  It appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quenisset affair, entrusted with this same function.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
10  The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his fervor increasing with every moment.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
11  That's the real secret of marriage, not sex; at least not the simple function of sex.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  However, the Prince had been a King, and the King had died, and now there was another King, whose chief function seemed to be to open soup-kitchens.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  Aristocracy is a function, a part of fate.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  It is a question of which function you are brought up to and adapted to.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  Even in their extremity, they had not considered asking a widow of scarcely a year to appear at a social function.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
16  They may also additionally represent much more; they may indeed have a highly integrating social function.
17  A machine will not function properly if any constituent of it is defective.
18  The function of an adjective is to describe or add to the meaning of a noun.
19  The biggest danger beside not wearing your harness is that you can't function properly.
20  "I think that to transfuse emotion," he writes, "to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer's is the peculiar function of poetry."
21  The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution, includes botany and zoology and all their subdivisions.
22  As true as that is, protecting freedom of the press is a critically important function for our justice system.
23  The machine won't function properly if you don't oil it well.
24  In my lifetime of investing, it is a conviction that has never been shaken: Reward is a function of risk, and vice versa.
25  The village hall is given over to civic functions and meetings.
26  Probably all know that a fish could drown, if the functions of the gills fail.
27  During hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered.
28  Existing arrangements contain latent functions that can be neither seen nor replaced by the reformer.
29  And "mate" is also handy at official functions when you can't remember a name.