do duty as

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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

"I suggest that the past officers take the places of the second, third, and fourth lieutenants, who shall do duty as seamen," said Leavitt, the second officer.

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver

As all the regular railway employ�s had fled with the departing Boers, it became necessary to call for volunteers from among the soldiers to do duty as drivers, stokers and guards.

From With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Lowry, Edward P.

When the preparations for the metamorphosis are at hand, the stomachic pouch, having no longer to do duty as a digestive laboratory, serves the insect as a factory, or a warehouse for different purposes.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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.