do duty as
Example Sentences
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Having reached Safeway with no fatalities, Stassin and I ordered our respective Loomos to trail us, so that they could do duty as shopping carts.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018
Mr Mildmay will be mighty glad to find that he hasn’t to do duty as first lieutenant, though I don’t know what old Sandford may wish in his heart of hearts.
From The Three Commanders by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
At last the perplexed man resolved to make his wife do duty as attender to signals, and was fortunate in this arrangement at first, for Molly was quick of apprehension.
From Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters by Pearson, Francis B.
Masters, midshipmen, and pursers must do duty as seamen.
From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver
On the other hand, he carries his habit too far of making a particular phrase do duty as an index of a character.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
