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
Gehry introduced clerestory windows, skylights, large exposed trusses, raw concrete floors and metal cladding, elevating the utilitarian spaces without erasing their industrial character.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Today, Mumbai is yet again a city in rapid flux - its building code governed by real estate moguls trying to maximise the floor space index, giving way to utilitarian rather than stylistic considerations.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
We need daylight and to that extent it is utilitarian, but moonlight we do not need.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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