Sentence examples for may double as from inspiring English sources

First, they may double as loanwords.

The laser systems may double as objets d'art, too, at least until people become more familiar with them.

Some yeogwans may double as love hotels: you'll find a stack of porn videos by the reception desk at the more blatant ones.

So this appearance by sociologist professor Richard Sennett may double as an escape from domestic conflict and a chance to get some insight into how co-operation functions.

The London artist Paul Noble bids to be the M. C. Escher of our day in obsessively detailed visions of nightmare cities, whose forms may double as block-lettered messages.

Throughout the fall, the condos will be the settings for a series of charity fund-raising events, which may double as open houses, said Kelly Mack, the president of the Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, which is handling sales.

I haven't noticed anything too out of the ordinary, though one bag has a sort of strange nurse's outfit, which may or may not double as a stripper outfit.

Since fall, Afghan villagers have been making their way to this city by the hundreds, until the hundreds are now 80,000, and the 80,000 may well double as the snows melt in the distant peaks and gullies.

Some owners use them as mobile offices, outfitted with fine leather chairs and Persian rugs; vans may also double as a child's playroom on wheels, complete with a built-in vacuum to clean what the children dirty.

French — (France, Napoleon) The French train Coureurs des bois, stronger villagers (better in economic and military duties than a settler but more expensive) which may eventually double as infantry.

In addition, there is limited atmospheric and ocean modeling of the response of the Kuroshio Current and Extension to future global warming (Sakamoto et al. 2005; Wu et al. 2012) suggesting that the current velocity will increase by up to 0.3 m/s (i.e., it may double in speed) as the North Pacific gyre intensifies.