The phrase "put to service" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to someone or something being officially assigned to a task or duty. For example: "The army put the new tank to service in the war effort."
The same techniques used against the American Indians terror, atrocities, native reservations were put to service crushing the squalid Filipinos.
So we're back to that idea of the sample as a living thing, a portion of time and energy wrested away from its original owners and put to service.
Mr. Bush's campaign aides left little doubt that if Dr. Dean captured the nomination, those Democratic criticisms would be put to service in Republican television advertisements next year, a tactic that would fit with the White House's general goal of keeping Mr. Bush personally above the partisan fray.
Foster's stubbornness and dedication won him back a place in the squad in 1999 but Coode was retained in the four while Foster's experience was put to service in the silver-medal winning eight but by Olympic year he had regained his seat in Britain's blue riband boat.
Cage was something mainstream moviegoers and indie mavens could agree on, a soldier for hire who could be put to service by David Lynch in one of his dark, individualist fantasies or drafted in by Jerry Bruckheimer to serve time in a tour of blockbuster duty.
These artistic talents were put to service in the production of a family magazine, The Earlsfield Chronicle, which Reed edited (and largely wrote) from the mid-1870s.
Mr. Gephardt has embraced traditional methods of winning this contest, putting to service veterans of the Iowa caucuses and importing labor leaders to replicate the get-out-the-vote operation he used in winning here in 1988.
The economy must be put to the service of people's welfare, and to support and serve the environment, not private profit.
And his trademark ability to deliver long phrases seamlessly is put to good service in Rachmaninoff.
More recently, the tradition was put to the service of racial equality.
Is it so impossible that modern scholarship, too, could be put to that service?
