do duty
Example Sentences
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Having reached Safeway with no fatalities, Stassin and I ordered our respective Loomos to trail us, so that they could do duty as shopping carts.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
Can Chang do duty on The Times' editorial pages?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
Jones' Ospreys back-up Craig Mitchell, James and John Yapp are candidates to do duty on the tight-head of the scrum during the tournament.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2011
The eight men to do duty were all the men in my mess.
From A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer by Washington Bailey
An old nest is sometimes made to do duty over and over again during the season, but it is always overhauled and re-lined.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables
