do duty as
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
He had come out of the hospital to do duty as a guide.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
This anxiety was, however, speedily relieved, by the appearance of Miss Cecile on the upper deck of the junk, waving a petticoat, which she had made do duty as a flag of truce.
From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor
A truism must do duty as my first sentence.
From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael
The portion allotted to Dave was removed, ostensibly to keep it warm for him, but reproduced to do duty as a second helping for Dolly.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
