jury duty

NOUN
  1. the civic duty to serve on a jury
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How To Use jury duty In A Sentence

  • I regret the nailclippers and the jeweller's screwdrivers and the knitting that I have to leave home when I get called for jury duty. Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions
  • I regret the nailclippers and the jeweller's screwdrivers and the knitting that I have to leave home when I get called for jury duty. Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions
  • Ironically, she was doing jury duty when the call came asking her to come for a lineup.
  • exempt from jury duty
  • “What happens if my decury is drawn for jury duty while I myself am occupied in acting for a defendant in another trial?” Fortune's Favorites
  • Everyone looks to take advantage of every loophole available when paying taxes, paying a traffic ticket, appearing for jury duty or whatever.
  • He was already called 4 times for jury duty
  • I don't know why Jury Duty should provoke this kind of anxiousness, but I woke up around 2: 30 this morning from a strange dream of being in a play directed by my friend Sara's ex-husband (not Sara the illustrator, a friend from college who's now living in Paris with her new husband and their first baby, which she just delivered/was just delivered of a few weeks ago) but no one ever told me when rehearsals were so on opening knight I still didn't know any of my lines and thus ensued some comedic chases around the theater because I was off hobnobbing with the editors in the audience while the director was belling for me to get on stage and say my lines ... Breakfast in Bed
  • If there is any positive message at all in the narrative it is that life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.
  • Mr. Isherwood however, in preferring to use his coveted editorial pulpit for snarky, unfunny asides -- "I invited a Beatles devotee to join me, but she reacted as if I'd asked her to come along to two weeks of jury duty" -- casually damns Rain with faint, and mostly fudged, praise. James Rotondi: "Rain" On Their Parade: Why the NY Times review of "Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles On Broadway" is All Wet
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