do duty
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
Can Chang do duty on The Times' editorial pages?
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2017
Jones' Ospreys back-up Craig Mitchell, James and John Yapp are candidates to do duty on the tight-head of the scrum during the tournament.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2011
The "Tawny Eagle" there figured might be a young Imperial of, say, two months old; while Aquila culleni, so far as colour is concerned, would do duty for the same bird at two years.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.
There the voyagers were sorely attacked with scurvy which thinned their numbers to such an extent, that, of the whole, only six were able to do duty.
