How to Use functionary in a Sentence

functionary

noun

• He was a party functionary during the political campaign.
• Its functionaries have done their utmost to convince those who still believe in its legitimacy that their faith is unfounded.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 May 2024
• Ms Suu Kyi could, after all, have sent a drab functionary to present Myanmar’s case.
  — The Economist, 11 Dec. 2019
• Some city functionary has taped a paper on the wall with the number to call for the key in off hours, which in this case is anytime before 8 p.m.
  — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
• But few had ever bothered to get inside the mind of the shady functionary who swindled the public garbage fund.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2021
• Stola is guilty simply of being a scholar and a thinker, rather than a functionary.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• In my case, as a functionary in the script, Rasputin has to be like this oncoming weather system that is darkening the world of The King’s Men.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• In 1934, Sergei Kirov, a leading Bolshevik functionary, was shot dead in Leningrad.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• However, the people who are most to blame for Afghanistan aren’t these functionaries.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Time, 10 Dec. 2019
• Without a single hand going up or down, the functionary announced that the motion had passed 14–1.
  — Alejandro Varela, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• Basically, the functionary told Green that the city wanted that streetlight installed, and Green had to pay for it.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
• But one of the most startling moments of the book is a description of the tsunami by a government functionary named Teruo Konno.
  — Lisa Levy, New Republic, 9 Oct. 2017
• Thomas grieves but must interact with the businesslike functionaries of death.
  — Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• Prison rules required that her writings be kept as evidence against her, and no functionary dared to dispose of them.
  — Lian Xi, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• When Leshchenko arrived at headquarters, a functionary told him that the plans were already scrambled.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
• In the film, a functionary of the Spanish government waits at a remote South American outpost for new orders.
  — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• Soon, most of Stalin’s functionaries were killed in the purges, including Iofan’s neighbors and his friend and patron Rykov.
  — Deyan Sudjic, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
• The Red leaders were driven by a righteousness that ran as deep as that of any Inquisition functionary.
  — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
• The response by a functionary was widely thought of as absurdly anachronistic: A scene in which hooligans stone to death a baby in a pram could not be publicly staged.
  — Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Hence the state attorneys general rise to check the president and his functionaries.
  — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
• Then the famous 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian functionaries was supposed to be proof of collusion, but nothing more has come of that.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
• For all the wit and care of the performances, Malcolm and JB register as one-note ciphers because the adaptation cuts them down to little more than plot functionaries.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• The founders of a museum that exposes the horrors of the Gulag are fired and replaced by a government functionary, and the museum’s exhibits are censored.
  — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
• Futawatari is a career functionary, in other words: an invisible man.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• At the start of the film, Kopfrkingl is a bourgeois functionary: a teetotaler, an aesthete, a family man, and a student of Buddhist philosophy.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2020
• The Society of Editors got their chief functionary to say there is absolutely nothing bigoted or racist about the British press.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
• Sonia was frequently ill, and Singh was unable to check the graft and theft perpetrated by allies and party functionaries.
  — Raghu Karnad, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2017
• The government of Hun Sen, the world’s longest-serving prime minister and a former functionary for the murderous Khmer Rouge, has been tied to systemic corruption and the erasure of human rights.
  — Hannah Beech Nadia Shira Cohen, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• Dinkins paid his dues as a Democratic functionary while earning a law degree from Brooklyn Law School, and then went into private practice.
  — Deepti Hajela, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2020
• Outside the courtrooms, however, doubts began to emerge as to whether functionaries should be prosecuted at all.
  — Dan Porat, Time, 25 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024