Sentence examples for does duty from inspiring English sources

Does duty come before passion?

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

In Maradona's personal lexicon, the same word does duty for both goalscoring and fornication.

Placed under the sink it becomes a trash can, cut and taped it does duty as a bookcover.

The conductor Bruno Campanella, who made a fine Met debut last month with Rossini's "Cenerentola," does duty for Rossini again.

There, it does duty as an informal meeting space and place for the staff to chill out.

Almost anything will do duty as a tomato stake.

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.

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

The technology is already doing duty inside millions of cell phones.