How to Use a function of in a Sentence

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  • No one can see your face turn pale; color is a function of light.
    Kory Stamper, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Not playing down the stretch was a function of stiffness.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The subsidy, in turn, is a function of the cost to deliver it.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Right now, the quality of a shift is largely a function of who's on it.
    Harmjan Derksen, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Every aspect of our life will change as a function of longevity.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
  • This may be a function of his trademark persistence rather than of tact.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In some ways, its current predicament may be a function of its past success.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2023
  • As a function of its thinness, this comforter felt more like a light blanket.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2024
  • This is a function of their habit of looking first, leaping second.
    Eric Roberge, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • This might be a function of the speed with which many people approach the matching process.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2023
  • Was attendance a function of the teams or the timing?
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • That’s in part a function of the complexity of war.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The key to the hollow hold is bracing, a function of your core that helps to support the spine.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Behavior is thus a function of one’s Taqwah.
    Irfan Sarwar, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Here's the temperature as a function of time for a little over one hour of run time.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Still, the safety of an investment is a function of the price investors pay for it.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The setback was a function of a pileup of factors, as most pullbacks are.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
  • This is a function of necessity, in part.
    Brett Berk, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The boundaries are entirely a function of who is drawing the map.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Frankly, that’s mostly a function of a daily routine getting to a good place.
    Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 15 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, as a function of it pulling away from Earth, its disk size will have shrunk by nearly one-third.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • That's a function of the immigrant round-ups, and leaves little room for wages to settle down.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
  • That’s progress, but also a function of sales, with fewer and fewer stick shift buyers long term.
    Kyle Hyatt, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The flood of memories unleashed by Proust’s madeleine was as much a function of smell as of taste.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
  • Those struggles were on them early on, and a function of Vasilevskiy’s brilliance late.
    Adam H. Beasley, Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Goetz said that’s a function of the nature of audience tracking.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • His disappearance could not merely be a function of time because he had not been gone that long.
    Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • No, this massacre was a function of hate—the kind of toxic intolerance in its purest form.
    TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In this equation, ψ denotes the star formation rate as a function of the redshift z.
    Florian Freistetter, Scientific American, 11 July 2024
  • Instead of a tool for punishment, it’s framed as a function of clarity and trust.
    Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025

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