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

His right arm was amputated after Fredericksburg, and he took it very cheerfully, trying at once to train his left hand to do duty for both, and never complained of his loss.

From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May

It is hard enough to do duty once, but doubly hard when you anticipate mentally everything you have to do to-morrow.

From Think A Book for To-day by Hunter, Col. Wm. C.