Sentence examples for doing duty from inspiring English sources

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

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

Gent's manners are refined with him (comp. anag. & lit).. D. F. Manley: Doughty Price's ultimate part doing duty for Carmichael?

So magical is this sequence that, by the end, the face of the chap doing duty as the sun seems the epitome of benign radiance.

Every actor, in fact, played at least one role in "Macbeth" and "The Rivals," with a handful also doing duty in "Merry Wives".

A few Ford Explorers are doing duty as taxis, along with several minivans: the Toyota Sienna, Isuzu Oasis and Honda Odyssey, among others.

Contractually, we spend 80 nights a year (usually in bite-size shifts of 1 week) on the mountain doing support work, plus up to a month doing duty-related work in Santiago.

Does duty come before passion?

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

Almost anything will do duty as a tomato stake.

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