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
They said the design went "beyond a utilitarian warehousing development" and approved the plan.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 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
In one upper pocket of his jacket was arrayed a variety of pens and pencils; in the other nestled a lily-white handkerchief whose presence was more decorative than utilitarian.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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