SERVICE in a Sentence

Learn SERVICE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for SERVICE, such as:
1. I am at your service, Anna Sergyevna.
2. He detailed a unit on a special service.
3. Local TV stations ran the ads as a public service.
4. We shall do whatever we can to extend our service.
5. When one loves one's art no service seems too hard.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SERVICE
service
 v.  make fit for use
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Had a cabbage chanced to be so encountered, she had pressed it also into the service.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  With some of them, however, Chichikov was altogether unacquainted, since certain substitutes and supernumeraries had to be pressed into the service from among the ranks of the subordinate staff.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
3  Nor was he wrong in his calculations, for, within the space of a year, he had acquired what he could not have made during twenty years of non-fraudulent service.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
4  To my charge there has been committed the performance of another kind of service.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
5  Also, there came to hand information with regard both to Chichikov's purchase of dead souls and to his conniving at contraband goods during his service in the Customs Department.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
6  His father gave him up as a bad job, and let him go into the civil service.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  I am at your service, Anna Sergyevna.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  Bazarov walked as far as the copse, sat down in the shade at its edge, and only then disclosed to Piotr the nature of the service he expected of him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  I used to be in the government service, but am no longer.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: I
10  Innumerable "romantics" attain later in life to considerable rank in the service.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
11  He never lent money to anyone, but I had, on entering the service, been specially recommended to him by an important personage who had got me my berth.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
12  Then there came other rumours--of his successes in the service.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
13  I shall be arrested, I shall be tried, I shall be dismissed from the service, thrown in prison, sent to Siberia.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: V
14  He's angry because so far I haven't made headway in the St. Petersburg service.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
15  Next year I am going to take my son to the capital to put him in government service.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The health service spends too much on administration.
2  After working in the prison service, he joined the defence forces before becoming an intelligence agent.
3  The prison service is already under considerable strain.
4  When one loves one's art no service seems too hard.
5  The funds available for the health service are finite and we cannot afford to waste money.
6  We flatter ourselves that we provide the best service in town.
7  They tanked up at the service station before taking off for the town.
8  These hotels still offer the sort of service which were the hallmark of the grand days of travel.
9  This aircraft company deals with freight only; it has no travel service.
10  Local TV stations ran the ads as a public service.
11  He detailed a unit on a special service.
12  We aim to offer good value and service to all our customers.
13  Romania is paying more and more to Western banks simply to service the debt.
14  We shall do whatever we can to extend our service.
15  You have to pay standing charges whether or not you use the service.