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Example sentences for "will serve"

  • The following illustrations, selected from those presented by the authorities above mentioned, will serve to explain the character of [p126] these remains.

  • This water that we have brought with us will serve to bathe our guest's feet.

  • It will serve to purchase the flowers you spoke of, if not to buy me your good-will.

  • This water that we have brought with us will serve to bathe our guest's feet[25].

  • If I have chosen a period of great extravagance, it will serve to show modern extravagance in a still worse light; especially as the pay of the navy, the army, and the revenue officers has not increased since that time.

  • When a calculation is made upon the known capital of any nation, combined with its population, it will serve as a scale for any other nation, in proportion as its capital and population be more or less.

  • It will serve to show how dismal the situation of a conquered people is, and that the only security is an effectual defence.

  • A man must first then be dead to your principles, both of nature and the law; if he will serve in a new spirit, if he would bring forth fruit unto God.

  • The operation of such a barbarous law (for so it appears to us) will serve to explain the conduct of the Chinese in the following instance.

  • It is necessary to watch the length of the sea, so that the boat may be veered as far from the droge or raft as it will serve to protect her against the breaking waves.

  • The full-page illustration, representing "Indian Lodges," will serve to explain the manner in which dwelling places of this description are set up.

  • Loose cotton, or almost any other vegetable fibre twisted into a cord, and then soaked in water in which a little saltpetre or gunpowder has been dissolved, will serve for a slow match.

  • I will serve you to the best of my ability, Miss Deane," he exclaimed.

  • If you polish the top of that with your sleeve it will serve as a plate.

  • If it will serve to reassure you, I will go along the line myself.

  • Of the miracles, that of St. Guillaume du Desert will serve as a fair example.

  • Roland will serve as a sample of the earliest, Amis et Amiles of the second.

  • The famous 'Wolf and Lamb' will serve as a specimen.

  • After the boy is admitted to the camp he takes an oath in which he states that he will serve as a junior volunteer for farm service in Maine until the last day of October, unless sooner released by the governor of the state of Maine.

  • It will serve as suggestive material for other equally enthusiastic and competent teachers.

  • This is a brief and inadequate account of a most unusual composition, but it will serve to show how Miss Mirrlees has loaded the historical novel with a heavier freight than that ornamental craft is accustomed to carry.

  • He then told them: "If such is your order, gentlemen, I will serve you no longer.

  • I did what I thought was right, and must leave consequences to God and the government, and if you insist upon my compliance with your rules in this particular, I will serve you no longer.

  • An extract from it will serve to show the spirit of the good man in affliction:-- "Unto the Glory of Thy Holy Name, Eternal God!

  • A principle of this sort announced in these terms is perhaps too schematic; but it will serve to establish a clear general rule that will guide us in our separate observations of a great variety of individual cases.

  • It will serve to guide us in our researches, and to furnish us with a standard of comparison for our own conclusions.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "will serve" 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:
    collected edition; eat and; feel very; will accomplish; will admit; will afford; will build; will consent; will deliver; will ever; will fetch; will find; will give; will join; will judge; will keep; will not hang myself; will not hearken unto; will pass over you; will quote; will readily; will require; will rise; will shew; will the; willing mind