SERVE in a Sentence

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396 example sentences for SERVE, such as:
1. No man can serve two masters.
2. A man cannot serve two masters.
3. He that would command must serve.
4. Dilcey, serve the rest of the supper.
5. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SERVE
serve
 v.  help to some food; help with food or drink
 v.  serve a purpose, role, or function
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "It will serve you right if that sly piece does accept one of you," she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Gerald was disappointed, for he had wanted a son, but he nevertheless was pleased enough over his small black-haired daughter to serve rum to every slave at Tara and to get roaringly, happily drunk himself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Mr. Wilkes always had at least a dozen darkies busy running back and forth with trays to serve the guests.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Draw water, serve food, lay pillows on the front porch, bind wounds, hold the dirty heads of the dying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  And get every cent out of them you can, but when you've got enough money, kick them in the face, because they can't serve you any longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  It would serve her right for picking up trash and foisting it off on her friends and relatives.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
7  Dilcey, serve the rest of the supper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
8  Since she had been brought up to be ornamental, she could hardly blame herself for failing to serve any practical purpose; but the discovery put an end to her consoling sense of universal efficiency.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
9  They had been helping the hostess to serve the Waldorf salad and coffee and gingerbread.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  It proved that he had learned to play in Minneapolis; that, next to Juanita Haydock, he had the best serve in town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  His side-fins only serve to steer by.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
12  The tails tapering down that way, serve to carry off the water, d'ye see.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.
13  Do thou abide below here, where they shall serve thee, as if thou wert the captain.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 129. The Cabin.
14  The next time she made bread, she scraped this sour stuff down into the fresh dough to serve as yeast.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
15  They will serve at the same time as a defense for the Afro-Americans Sampsons who suffer themselves to be betrayed by white Delilahs.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  I will not accept if nominated, and will serve if selected.
2  Come with us, maybe you can serve me in this activity.
3  We serve traditional French food cooked in a lighter way, keeping the presentation simple.
4  All theories originate from / in practice and in turn serve practice.
5  No man can serve two masters.
6  A man cannot serve two masters.
7  Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.
8  This relaxation technique can serve as an effective weapon against stress.
9  They take pains to hire people whose personalities predispose them to serve customers well.
10  He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.
11  He that would command must serve.
12  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
13  Her ideas have been shamelessly perverted to serve the president's propaganda campaign.
14  The new arts centre will serve the whole community.
15  Local councillors have a duty to serve the community.