Sentence examples for do duty from inspiring English sources

The "Scouting Spirit" gets plenty of ink, as do "duty to country" and completing "good turns".

It can also do duty as a ledge for storing items in a kitchen, bathroom, children's room or foyer.

Of course, most dogs do duty as family pets, and that role should not be made light of.

Occasionally, contemporary reconstructions do duty for combat shots, and, perhaps more often, genuine footage is deployed in inappropriate circumstances.

Rusted car parts do duty for eyes, while the mouth is open but stuffed with a charred piece of wood.

Those in the centre of town have long since been culverted over, except where they do duty as ornamental water in parks (e.g., the Serpentine in Hyde Park).

The film reveals that a large number of extraterrestrials do duty-free shopping before leaving the planet and that the World's Fair grounds in Flushing are not going to waste after all - Monday at 8 p.m. on Channel 4. And if that isn't enough Barry Sonnenfeld for you, try a double feature of THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) and ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993).

Does duty come before passion?

Ms. Belforti also does duty cleaning the town hall bathrooms.

And the genus is still doing duty in evolutionary biologists' laboratories.

One says that some tarpaulins handed out after floods in 2004 are still doing duty.