Sentence examples for served at first from inspiring English sources

PCs served at first as glorified typewriters.It was only with the advent of the internet and its corporate counterpart, the intranet, that information began to flow more quickly.

They began with the introduction into the Pre-Raphaelite circle of the beautiful Elizabeth Siddal, who served at first as model for the whole group but was soon attached to Rossetti alone and, in 1860, married him.

The division between humanism and science is recent, an Enlightenment idea, a Cartesian duality, and like many such ideas, it served at first to advance a discourse it may now impede.

This loud and pompous attitude served at first to promote his fights and sell tickets for Cassius Clay, but it would later give Muhammad Ali the voice to challenge authority on the social and racial issues of the era.

It was overwhelmingly salty, but the rest, rinsed in fresh water, were blissfully sweet and custard-like, with no hint of the metallic flavor that mars the elderly uni served at second-rate sushi bars.

Serving at first as mercenaries, the brothers soon began to seize lands for themselves.

Federer struggled to read Cilic's serve at first, making 20 out of 36 returns in the first set and 11 out of 26 in the second.

Baitz understands that the purpose of this snideness is to neutralize provocation — "You refuse to argue," Fabricant complains — and he writes it well; its indirection serves at first to discount Judd and then to explain him.

He imagined that it was served at the first Thanksgiving, confounding both the Indians and the Pilgrims, who declared it "heretically tasty" and "the work of the devil".

They will celebrate Thanksgiving in the belief that they are feasting on much the same dishes that were served at the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Mass., in 1621.

Most plead guilty and are sentenced to time served at their first hearing.