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Example sentences for "serve the"

  • He told me he had the greatest wish to serve the Emperor, and that he would make any sacrifice to prove his fidelity.

  • At the first moment I had been prompted only by the wish to serve the cause of the King, but I was alarmed when I came to examine the extent of the responsibility I had taken upon myself.

  • He said, "Whether I shall be employed here or anywhere else is indifferent to me: to serve the country, and to merit from posterity a page in our history, is all my ambition.

  • Now Abraham died when he was a hundred and seventy-five, therefore he must have been only three when he began to serve the Lord.

  • And now we humbly pray thee be inclin'd To pardon our offences, and the rather For that we serve the God e'en of thy father.

  • No; to serve the cause of humanity, to bring liberty to mankind.

  • Only those duties which are manifestly too high even to serve the interests of those who are directly "protected" ought in his view to be lowered.

  • Sam Dobbins is in the store waitin' fer me, so I shall tell 'im to go ahead an' serve the summons.

  • He's goin' to take legal action, and so I've been sent to serve the summons.

  • Dhanishtha and other asterisms were created by Brahma, and Rohini used to serve the purpose of one such; and consequently their number was full.

  • In that case I shall not try to serve the writs.

  • One of the sheriff's posse had been severely wounded by a bullet and had failed to serve the writs.

  • I turned to Curtis and said: "If the gentleman tried to serve the writ he acted without orders and deserves what he has got.

  • The fear came to me that Latour would try to serve the writs in spite of me.

  • So, feeling that I was engaged in a just cause, I bravely determined to serve the writs if possible.

  • I give you better counsel, to serve the God of glory, and pray the Lord of life for victory and grace and safety, wherever ye may journey.

  • Now I know that he will forfeit all eternal joy who thinketh not to serve the King of heaven and please the Lord.

  • Then answered the foul fiends, black and sinful, chained in torment: "Thou with thy lies didst teach us not to serve the Saviour!

  • A principal design of the great roads was to serve the purposes of military communication.

  • The seventh sort are those who serve the public in expensive employments at their own charge: these are called the rich.

  • I propounded the query to myself; but, in reality, I had answered it in advance, in that I had in advance defined the sort of activity which was agreeable to me, and by which I was called upon to serve the people.

  • Such is the false course of science, which deprives it of the power of fulfilling its obligation, which is, to serve the people.

  • The province of science is to serve the people.

  • No, my reader, life is the time to serve the Lord, the time to insure the great reward.

  • I serve the King; On whose employment I was sent to you.

  • Madam, he's gone to serve the Duke of Florence.

  • Indeed the short and the long is, I serve the Jew, and have a desire, as my father shall specify- GOBBO.

  • Thus far I have been able to serve the cause in quiet, unrecognized ways that I need not now explain; but I am one who must obey orders, and I wish to do so, for my heart is in the work.

  • If he wishes to serve the government in some civilian capacity, and is well paid for it, why shouldn't he?

  • The few who have successfully grasped the lever of which Archimedes dreamed are those who have attained the highest power to serve the world.

  • If one large table is provided, the men, assisted by the waiters, serve the women.

  • A guest at a dinner should not pass a plate or any article to another guest, or serve the viands, unless asked to do so by the hostess.

  • The class who suffered most severely on that occasion were the fisher folk of Devon, "the most part" of whom were "taken as marryners to serve the king.

  • For generations no call was made upon them to serve the king at sea.

  • He was to impress none but such as "were strong bodies and capable to serve the king"; and, having so impressed such persons, he was to deliver them up to the officer regulating the nearest rendezvous.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serve the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being discovered; conspicuous part; external perception; good breeding; great consternation; great shock; great triumph; maritime boundary; mother had; not more decidedly the; particularly important; political economists; scientific explanation; serve five; serve four; serve the; serve thee; serve their; serve them; serve three; serve under; serve you; served cold; served plain; three hundred and forty; will marry