Example sentences for: utilitarian

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

  • Athens strained to accommodate many of them and a rash of building work saw the erection of the first faceless utilitarian suburbs that now surround the downtown area.

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

  • The only justification for bombing Iraq is the crude utilitarian calculus: violence now by the West should help to prevent future violence, on a far greater scale, by Saddam."

  • I mention that point to my medical students (150 presumably healthy young people) every year in an effort to get them to agree to a utilitarian plan making it mandatory to remove one kidney from each of them to be made available for donation.

  • But, nonetheless, we consider what is occurring to be a disaster not just from a utilitarian point of view, but at some deeper level giving us an emotional reaction to the word ‘slime’—somehow it is just plain wrong.


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