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Example sentences for: utilitarian

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While the backdrops vary--the magnate's house is utilitarian and spare, the musician's full of antiques--the spiritual decor is as cold as a corporate headquarters.
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 people farther north had all been earnest Protestants with a utilitarian outlook.
Stated in that way, the case for private property rests on the incentives that it creates for the preservation and spread of wealth, while the case against it rests on similar utilitarian commitments: giving private ownership to a river blocks transportation, recreation, and aesthetic values.
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?)