utilitarian
Example Sentences
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For you, goods and services serve a utilitarian function.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
Since the 2000s the city's planners have been preoccupied with building more utilitarian infrastructure, with new sea bridges and coastal roads, radically transforming how the city looks today.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Jones said he and his colleagues gave it a utilitarian design because they wanted consumers to regard it as a tool, not a toy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 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
Once the armor is on, I strap on my weaponry: scims and daggers of Serric steel, razor-sharp and graceful, especially compared to the dull, utilitarian weapons we've used until now.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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