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. To live is to function.
2. the function of real philosophy.
3. We must function as one mind and one body.
4. Aristocracy is a function, a part of fate.
5. Yes, many a function calls for fulfilment.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FUNCTION
function
 n.  a relation such that one thing is dependent on another
 n.  what something is used for
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)
1  Toward a day finally to achieve the ultimate goal of moving enough, but every step as the goal, to make it as a step function.
2  To live is to function.
3  The function of the veins is to carry blood to the heart.
4  I couldn't get my brain to function or coordinate my muscles.
5  A flat electroencephalogram indicates a loss of brain function.
6  Emotional responses are a function of the right hemisphere of the brain.
7  An imbalance in certain chemicals leads to disturbances in the brain's function.
8  This design aims for harmony of form and function.
9  Painstaking effort, three words, a name, a hard, a called function, must keep up your spirits, work hard.
10  The proper function of man is to live,but not to exist.
11  We must function as one mind and one body.
12  The function of the stomach is to digest food sufficiently to enable it to pass into the intestine.
13  The superiority and inferiority of PM machine is closely related with the function parameter of permanent magnet material which is being used.
14  Surely the function of the law is to protect everyone's rights.
15  Our results confirm the relation between birth weight and lung function measurements reported in other studies.