Sentence examples for served to get from inspiring English sources

The nuance-free message served to get the commander in chief re-elected.

There's an awful lot of business naivety, but it served to get us through the hard times.

Stevens was a brave and thoughtful diplomat who, like Neumann, lived to engage with ordinary people in the countries where he served, to get past the wire.

I don't mean that "Sans Famille" and "Belling the Cat" served to get me into Vassar, though, multiplied, evidently they helped.

Part of the problem was the staging, which merged the pieces into one long flow of dance with interludes that served to get the dancers on and off the stage in ways that were sometimes ingenious but otherwise hokey.

The move served to get the broadcasting entity past the bickering and on to cutting costs and going after the Hispanic market in the U.S. Thus María entered the clubby, male-dominated world of Mexican corporate politics.

Still, the events serve to get at the hidden heart of a person.

Henin'll have to improve her first serve to get anything here.

But she follows it with a nice wide serve to get to 40-15.

Tsonga broke Ferrer's serve to get back on serve, and he saved four break points in the 11th game of the set.

Sara Errani fought hard to prevent a second set bagel, and did so successfully by holding serve to get to 1-5.