The reduced pressure and humidity at altitude cause taste buds to function poorly, making foods taste blander.

Materials such as reflective foil have a high thermal conductivity and would function poorly as a conductive insulator.

Yet the confused status continued to exist on and off, although at the end for the most part to function poorly.

The trams were delivered late and functioned poorly when put into traffic.

It was impoverished, its dinners and functions poorly attended and its benchers lacking professional prestige.