Sentence examples for do double service from inspiring English sources

As Horace Walpole would later note: "Gods, animals and other objects were no longer carved out of stone: but the trees, shrubs and hedges were made to do double service as a body of verdure and as a sculpture gallery".

The invisible well is a time tunnel that does double service as a brain scrambler.

The cinnamon stick does double service as a rustic garnish, along with a zesty twist of lemon peel.

In airports, Laptop Lane outlets will do double duty as customer-service centers for Softnet Zone customers going online at the gate or "anywhere else you want, including the shoeshine stand and the bathroom," Dr. Brilliant said.

In English vernacular, the title of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 epic about the Napoleonic wars does double metaphorical service.

Movies forced to do double duty as thoughtful entertainment and public-service campaign (like last year's sex trafficking fiasco, "Trade of Innocents") are almost invariably irritating.

Thus do creationists, in the service of reasongiving exigency, force the Holy Scripture to do double duty as a high-school biology textbook).

I do double shifts.

Do double crochet.

Make conditioner do double duty.

Do double coats of newspapers and paint.