Sentence examples for that serviceable from inspiring English sources

Oil contaminated water has resulted in so many disastrous consequences that serviceable method for removing oil from water is urgently needed.

A similar asymmetry holds at the level of speech recognition and generation, accounting for the fact that serviceable speech generators (e.g., reading machines for the blind) have been available much longer (since about 1976) than serviceable speech recognizers (appearing around 1999).

Fries was a Swiss doctor, whose book, "Reise Durch Sibirien" ("Travel in Siberia"), described a journey he made in 1776 and, incidentally, became one of the earliest books to use that serviceable title.

It doesn't mean "right now" as in "I need to go for a wee right now!" What, I ask, is wrong with that serviceable old periphrasis "at this moment in time"?

"Ten days back, of 20 Cobra helicopters, we have only one that was serviceable," he said.

In 1927 the Krupp Laboratory at Essen, Ger., discovered that a serviceable product could be produced when the normally brittle tungsten carbide was mixed with a cemented material.

The middle of the pizza is a quagmire of buffalo mozzarella that, while serviceable, offers only a distant echo of the milky freshness you expect.

If New Jersey is going to spend taxpayer money, it ought to be for a facility that is serviceable for as many taxpayers as possible.

Couple that with serviceable rebounding and defense, and a long-renowned passing prowess, particularly out of the post, you have a player whose versatility and dynamism could do wonders for a top-heavy team pining for depth.

He could barely trust his spinners, relying not on Moeen Ali, nor until the openers had already wiped out the deficit, Adil Rashid, but Samit Patel instead, with left-arm spin that is serviceable but hardly threatening to international batsmen.

(In one sense the Johnson collection is not complete at all: it omits Mr. Johnson's time in the 1970s at Hi Records in Memphis, Mr. Green's label. Mr. Shipley noted that a serviceable two-CD set already exists. But like any true fan, he also has his bias: Mr. Johnson's earlier stuff is just better, he said).