serviceable

Example Sentences

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The lyrics, which are serviceable but unremarkable—“Oh, I need you, yes, it’s true / I wouldn’t be anywhere without you” is a representative couplet—don’t offset the sleepiness.

From The Wall Street Journal

Still, Robles’s strong start can provide confidence that he will be able to get on base enough to be a serviceable hitter in the bottom third of the order.

From Washington Post

“They would have been valuable enough to be recovered if still serviceable. But they were dead nails, and the way they were distributed around the perimeter of the tomb suggests that the placement was purposeful.”

From New York Times

Say, for instance, you've fried up a couple of perfectly serviceable eggs with greens and garlic for lunch.

From Salon

But in a high-stakes battle to reshape the food system to be more climate friendly, framing lab meat as a serviceable, demand-driven tool to chip away at conventional meat production seems premature.

From Salon