Sentence examples for second serving from inspiring English sources

"second serving" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It refers to the act of taking a second portion of food during a meal. Example: After finishing her first plate of spaghetti, Maria went back for a second serving.

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I'll certainly go along with that, provided I get a second serving.

Mr Taylor is only the second serving head of state to be charged with war crimes after Slobodan Milosevic.

He was the second serving officer to be arrested as part of the investigation, known as Operation Elveden, following the arrest last month of a 52-year-old female officer.

He would become only the second serving prime minister in British history to appear at a public inquiry; the Conservative prime minister, John Major, testified a decade ago in an arms embargo investigation.

Rationing was still in force when, under the eye of David Lean's camera, a thin, pale eight-year-old boy named John Howard Davies raised his gruel bowl and dared to request a second serving.

Murray broke once from four attempts in the first set and took two of three chances in the second, serving out untroubled, adding just his third ace and then forcing a final dreadful forehand from Wawrinka, who looked more relieved than devastated.

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First serve, second serve, overhead: Sampras.

second serve to break.

Second serve.

And get a second serve.

Top-spin second serve.

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