How to Use nonfunctioning in a Sentence
nonfunctioning
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There are more nonfunctioning lights on the road today than there ever used to be.
—Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 2017-06-13
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The ancient telomere at the fusion site is now a nonfunctioning relic of evolution embedded in the middle of the chromosome.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 2012-07-23
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The ocular prosthesis can be nearly spherical, like the eyeball, or cup-like, to fit over an existing, malformed and nonfunctioning eye.
—Christopher Wanjek, Fox News, 2017-05-17
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