Example sentences for: functionaries

How can you use “functionaries” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This work was Parkes' magisterial Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West , a book that at last stripped the cloak of anonymity from the important work of commas, periods, dashes, colons, semicolons, and countless other full- and part-time functionaries.

  • He was in flight from the Nazis and their French functionaries, hiding and constantly on the move.

  • New bureaucratic functionaries now had to keep track of individuals they might never meet, and they (and other name-givers, such as priests and other local worthies) followed a few simple rules for distinguishing one Giovanni from another.


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