Sentence examples for doubles as a support from inspiring English sources

But it's hard when you are young and lonely – no matter how many fandoms you join – to resist a readily-available audience that doubles as a support group.

Most current members are women in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction, and in that sense, the Doll Face Club doubles as a support group of sorts.

I was once a contributor to Pleasant Gehman's Puppet Horror, a zine that doubled as a support group for people traumatized by puppets.

But much else is functionally furniture, in the sense that it does double duty as a support for other art.

It's long and black, with a removable aluminum handle on top (it doubles as the support for an external mike or video light) and a removable lens shade.

What started out as an innovative program to assist artists in getting worthy projects off the ground could turn into a continued excuse not to get back to creative work that doubles as a viable way to support that art making.

It is in that vein that the Body Aware event, in addition to being beautiful and buzzed, doubled as a fundraiser for Support.fm, a crowd-funding tool to support incarcerated trans and gender nonconforming people, a large percentage of whom have ended up behind bars due to forced dependence on criminalized drugs.

The event doubled as a fundraiser to support the upcoming season of the Bushwick Starr, a nonprofit theater that supports work in dance, theater, and puppetry.

It also doubles as a media server with UPnP and iTunes support.

The occupation doubled as a show of support for the "3 Cosas" – a campaign by outsourced Latin American cleaners at the University of London to get sick pay, holiday pay and pensions (they already won the first two and are now just holding out for pensions).

The school doubles as a community centre and is host to a learning centre supported by the UHI Millennium Institute.