Thesaurus / serviceable
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
With one person a single word, with another a phrase, and with another a sentence, is most serviceable.
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)
She was, however, afterwards got off the rocks and repaired, and is now a very serviceable vessel in the colony.
Sin Sin Wa never moved, and the raven, settling down upon the Chinaman's shoulder, closed his serviceable eye.
DOPESAX ROHMER
She never got dishevelled or untidy, and her trim tweed skirt and serviceable boots never made her look unwomanly.
THE DOCTOR OF PIMLICOWILLIAM LE QUEUX
He was highly serviceable to the royal cause during the English civil wars.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
"And here's the very one that got too familiar with my toe," said Grace, as she picked up another serviceable stone.
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN THE SADDLELAURA LEE HOPE
Her dress was black, with a plain white cap, and a large serviceable apron.
DIGBY HEATHCOTEW.H.G. KINGSTON
Tell me,” said Hadria, “what are the qualities in a human being that make him most serviceable, or least harmful?
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRD
They were indeed as a document expresses it most serviceable when it was requisite “defectus burgi adimplere.”
THE INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH GILDSFRANCIS AIDEN HIBBERT
Five hundred specially made Receptacles, in handsome, serviceable filing cases.
WAYS OF WAR AND PEACEDELIA AUSTRIAN
WORDS RELATED TO SERVICEABLE
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- beneficial
- commercial
- conducive
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- cost-effective
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- good
- helpful
- in order
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- open
- operative
- practicable
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- profitable
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- running
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- subservient
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- wieldy
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- all-purpose
- applied
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- wieldy
- admired
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- hot
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- important
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- treasured
- useful
- valued
- worthwhile
- worthy
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