Sentence examples for it does duty from inspiring English sources

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

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

Does duty come before passion?

If it does its duty in receiving and arranging and studying the data, it should be able to rely on the members of the College to collect and send in the data.

Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club gave "The Angels Take Manhattan" a grade of A, attributing its success to "the way it does double duty as a twist adventure and a highly emotional story of farewells".

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

Now, it has to do duty for three generations: Weatherwax moved in a decade ago not just with James, but also an older daughter.

The coloring experiments continue, it does homework duty, and it has even become something of a multimedia gadget.

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

It's a great match for cameras, I think, since it does double duty as a display and data pipe.

Because it is a series of exercises, it does double duty -- warming up the muscle and then working to enhance flexibility and range of motion.