UTILITARIAN in a Sentence

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Under the utilitarian motive of Rosedale's wooing she had felt, clearly enough, the heat of personal inclination.

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 Meanings and Examples of UTILITARIAN
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utilitarian
 a.  practical and functional, not just for show
Classic Sentence:
1  Under the utilitarian motive of Rosedale's wooing she had felt, clearly enough, the heat of personal inclination.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
2  The luxury of lying late in bed was a pleasure belonging to the life of ease; it had no part in the utilitarian existence of the boarding-house.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
3  The jolly tombstone-yard, where a utilitarian sculptor in a red calfskin overcoat whistled as he hammered the shiniest of granite headstones.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  His own person was the exact embodiment of his utilitarian character.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
5  With his unbending, utilitarian, matter-of-fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  Do not forget those utilitarian steel tables when moving.
2  A major intellectual property lawsuit involving IT giants Oracle and Google is in the process of defining the legal definitions of "creative" and "utilitarian" in software development.
3  This is a utilitarian relationship with nature, in which it becomes a treasure chest of consumer goodies.