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
The necessary changes in matters of history having been made, his volume might do duty as the biographical memoir of thousands of her contemporaries.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
"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
Even this story has been made to do duty as showing the ecclesiastical opposition to dissection and the advancement of anatomical knowledge.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by Walsh, James J.
The portion allotted to Dave was removed, ostensibly to keep it warm for him, but reproduced to do duty as a second helping for Dolly.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
