The children of Virginia, naturally of beautiful persons, and generally of more genius than those in England, were doomed to grow up unserviceable for any great employments in church or state.
The muskets of the soldiery had been rendered unserviceable by the wet, and Blucher, drawing his sabre from beneath his cloak, dashed forward exclaiming, "Forward!
In the midst of the uproar of the elements, bloody engagements continually took place, in which the bayonet and the butt-end of the firelock were almost alone used, the muskets being rendered unserviceable by the wet.
The younger members of the family were occupied in making unserviceable articles for the Red Cross, and complaining of the shortage of sugar.
A chronic, progressive, hyperplastic-degeneration exists in some cases and the subjects are in time rendered unserviceable because of the burden of getting about encumbered by the affected extremity.
In light-harness or saddle horses, it may render the subject practically valueless or unserviceable if the condition cannot be corrected.
Many affected animals that are kept in service in spite of lameness (and in some instances where no lameness is present), soon become unserviceable because of contraction of the inflamed tendon.
Their unserviceable canoes were commonly broken up and applied to this use.
The horses were becoming unserviceable from lack of nourishment; the sheep were so miserably lean as to be scarcely worth killing for food.
Hooker had accomplished some success, in view of the strong position and numbers in their front, might have failed to dislodge the enemy, and have rendered them unserviceable at the proper time.
His magazines were at Winchester, connected with Harper's Ferry and Washington by a line of railway which had been rapidly repaired, and on April 12 this line had become unserviceable through the spreading of the road-bed.
A strange unserviceable thing, A fragile, exquisite, pale shell, That the vast troubled waters bring To the loud sands before day has broken.
And therefore it is a great error of them that wish for the death of all that are impotent, decrepit, and bedrid, as if they were utterly unserviceable to God.
On all foreign stations men are discharged by foreign remove-tickets, and in other cases by dead, sick, or unserviceable ticket, whether at home or abroad.
To drive an iron spike by main force into the vent or touch-hole of a gun, which renders it unserviceable till the spike be either worked out, or a new vent drilled.
Driving a large nail or iron spike into the vent, which will render the cannon unserviceable until removed.
We certainly shall be unserviceableif we are persons of that type.
Several projectiles now fell upon the citadel, where everything was in readiness to set fire to the provisions and munitions which remained there along with some unserviceable cannon, generally used in the training of the Garde Civique.
When wagons were damaged on the march, and repair was impossible, the load was divided among the other wagons and the unserviceable wagon abandoned.
Of the 146 wagons, one was apparently unserviceable by the time it reached Wills Creek.
These, however, were unserviceable at the time, one of the seven-pounders being without a carriage and the two Maxims being also out of repair.
The ranks of the Guard had been most carefully culled, the unserviceable had been weeded out, their places taken by men well fitted by their record, their physical prowess and their personal appearance to belong to that famous corps.
Ten thousand men are without arms, or with armsunserviceable and broken.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unserviceable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: impracticable; impractical; unserviceable; unusable; unworkable; useless
