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How to use serviceable in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective

Serviceable means easy to service. Example: “There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.”

Examples of serviceable by meaning

adjectiveIn condition for use.

  • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The...
  • The shortage of serviceable SR steam power has also led to the use of the surviving Q1 0-6-0s on passenger duties, particularly on the Horsham-Guildford service.1964 November, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Modern Railways, page 368
  • Maguire was always extravagantly priced at £80m but a player who is a solid and serviceable Premier League defender and has become one of England manager Gareth Southgate's most trusted squad members now looks hopelessly out of form.2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with serviceable

  • The matchbox he used to “dead drop” his film was serviceable but primitive.2019, Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief. From the entry dead drop
  • Anything but convincing or even really serviceable, its Muppetlike appearance was appropriate to this film.2017 January 12, Bill Warren, Keep Watching the Skies!, American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition…. From the entry Muppetlike
  • We settled for quartinos of serviceable Chianti ($8.75) and pinot grigio ($8).2009 August 2, Alice Gabriel, “Keeping It Simple, With an Eye on Tradition”, in New York Times. From the entry quartino
  • The galvonic current causes a tonic contraction, and this is the most serviceable form.1911 June, The Medical Times, volume 39, page 186. From the entry galvonic
  • Especially is this true of rubber panties worn over the diaper, which are serviceable only for a short outing.1938, Harry Lowenburg, Care of Infants and Children, Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, page 195. From the entry rubber panties
  • Not a scrap of metal, not even a serviceable edge of broken stone or brick, had been left to suggest escape.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry account for
  • None knew those difficult ropes better than he; none used them with a more serviceable and yet discreet alacrity.1918 May 9, Lytton Strachey, “[Cardinal Manning.] Chapter VII”, in Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold…. From the entry ramify
  • Are the Krags serviceable to the men for training purposes?1918, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs, Army Appropriation Bill, 1919: Hearings Before the Committee..., page…. From the entry Krag
  • Those dresses are good, sensible, serviceable dresses, without any frills or furbelows about them, and they’re all you’ll get this summer.1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC. From the entry furbelow
  • I trust that you are lowly and serviceable?”1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Works of A. Conan Doyle: The white company, page 167. From the entry jambe
  • The floor was of ant-bed, the stuff of the termites' or white-ants' nests, which when crushed and wetted and beaten hard makes serviceable cement.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 92. From the entry ant-bed
  • The islanders have discovered that kylies made out of thin iron, such as ship′s tanks, are the most serviceable, and they show great dexterity in making them (see Fig. 6).1916, Royal Society of Western Australia, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, volume 1, page 57. From the entry kylie

Meaning of serviceable

  1. adjective Easy to service.
  2. adjective Repairable instead of disposable.
  3. adjective In condition for use.

Full definition of serviceable

Questions about serviceable in a sentence

How do you use serviceable in a sentence?
Serviceable is used as an adjective. For example: “There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.”
What is a short sentence with serviceable?
“I trust that you are lowly and serviceable?””
What does serviceable mean?
Serviceable means easy to service.

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