utilitarian
Example Sentences
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For you, goods and services serve a utilitarian function.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
Elizabeth’s daywear of utilitarian elegance spanned every color of the rainbow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Completed in 1984, the hangar-like space blended industrial materials — metal cladding, stucco, exposed structure and utilitarian forms — with folded, sculptural masses and cheeky artistic moments.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Soon after, he started seeing his current partner Wang Chunxia, although Mr Junmin suggested to the paper the love was only "utilitarian" and that she hadn't "entered" his heart.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025
We shared the joy of being in this room, in the home of an artist, a person whose life was gracious and carefree, whose furnishings and decorations were as impractical as ours were utilitarian.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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