Example sentences for: utilitarian

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

  • The utilitarian male is a producer, the ornamental male is a consumer.

  • Lately healthy, utilitarian hats have returned in force, along with athletic footgear and down jackets, and there's even a certain limited stylishness in recent examples.

  • As handwriting becomes ever less a daily utilitarian workhorse it may well become ever more a cherished means of interpersonal transmission--for the sorts of messages that one sets aside to preserve (or pulls out to reread from one's intermammary sulcus).

  • 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.

  • 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.


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