Example sentences for: utilitarian

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

  • It just may be they are right--that utilitarian math may not be the highest virtue when dealing with organ procurement (one murder could net two kidneys as we are likely to find out from the Chinese prisoner situation--should we trade one life for two?)

  • Also on display in the Banpo Museum (Banpo Bowuguan) are some of the objects found in the course of excavations: axes, fishhooks, and utilitarian pots, as well as artistically decorated ceramics and, most dramatically, the skeletons of these ancient villagers.

  • Fur clothes were strictly utilitarian until people learned to spin thread fine enough to weave into cloth soft enough to drape around the body.

  • The point is that in the first fifty-year segment, the lexical landscape is one of occupation and subsistence rather than exploration: it is utilitarian rather than interpretive.

  • I should have known that these interests did not point to a utilitarian turn of mind.


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