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
A bag of mealie-meal stood in the corner of the tent; I laid this prone so that it might do duty as a table.
From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
A truism must do duty as my first sentence.
From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael
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
A third has detached from its leather one of his stirrup-irons, and is hanging it on a string to do duty as a triangle.
From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Jekyll, Walter
