Sentence examples for serviceable stand-in from inspiring English sources

A Cuisinart would make a serviceable stand-in, though it requires some extra effort in scraping down the bowl.

For a moviegoer, the book has a special interest: the men's uneasiness with one another stands in sharp contrast to the gung-ho spirit of the platoon and bomber-crew movies of the same period, in which the serviceable vessels of democracy — Wasp, Italian, Irishman, and Jew — buried their differences and, in the end, killed Krauts and Japs together.

He was superb in his first start, serviceable in his second and ghastly in his third.

His compact swing and patient approach produced consistent, serviceable numbers in 2012, as his.289 average exemplified.

The Bills have a serviceable veteran in Chris Kelsay who can play on running downs.

Instead, the Hawks got an emerging All-Star in Ratliff and a serviceable veteran in Kukoc.

Athens produced a serviceable Games in 2004, after much panic, cockup and, doubtless, corruption beforehand.

But Layden was excited to get two potentially serviceable players in the second round.

The real question is this: Why encourage developers to redo an attractive, livable and serviceable Midtown in the first place?

That's because it is widely regarded as having the shortest commercially serviceable runway in the world – approximately 396m.

But the fourth line is not just out there to get serviceable minutes in.