Sentence Examples

1. Each man sat straight and proud in his saddle, his blade at his side, and every blade had a jeweled hilt, being at once serviceable and a rich ornament.
2. It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm.
3. So that, supposing us to have the gift of reason, he could not see how it were possible to cure that natural antipathy which every creature discovered against us nor consequently, how we could tame and render them serviceable.
4. Passepartout was by no means one of those pert dunces depicted by Moliere with a bold gaze and a nose held high in the air he was an honest fellow, with a pleasant face, lips a trifle protruding, soft-mannered and serviceable, with a good round head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend.
5. Lyra resisted the urge to comment on his playing, finding it serviceable but uninspiring.
6. That he had once, by way of experiment, privately removed a heap of these stones from the place where one of his yahoos had buried it whereupon the sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud lamenting brought the whole herd to the place, there miserably howled, then fell to biting and tearing the rest began to pine away would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, till he ordered a servant privately to convey the stones into the same hole, and hide them as before which when his yahoo had found, he presently recovered his spirits and good humor, but took good care to remove them to a better hiding place, and has ever since been a very serviceable brute.
7. Their distance from the base of the fatal hill was but a few rods, and the steeds had been serviceable only in crossing the shallow stream.
8. Everything was serviceable except for his right shoulder and his left arm.
9. But he had reckoned too much upon his strength, and then he realized how serviceable the timber had been to him.
10. The Copper Cantina had a small but serviceable kitchen, and the burgers and fries were truly first-rate.