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provide (usually but not necessarily food)
She dished out the soup at 8 P.M.
We serve meals for the homeless
The entertainers served up a lively show
How To Use serve up In A Sentence
- Little stalls on wheels serve up ‘tiffin’: banana chips, grilled corn on the cob on a stick, vegetable bhajis, bel puri, little rice batter puffs with a stew of channa poured into them.
- Is it time to serve up?
- Rather than more low-slung, snug-fitting pants, designers will have to serve up loose, flowing pants - perhaps even with elastic waistbands.
- The line would serve up to 20 towns in the west of Ireland and link with radial routes to Westport, Ballina and Longford.
- Whereas in the past you could just serve up three courses for all guests and hope they enjoyed your cooking, these days a wise hostess checks with her guests about genuine intolerance.
- It's time to serve up the main course.
- It was my first opportunity to observe up close the other foreign press corps on a story. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
- Pre-dinner drinks outside are always welcome, though, weather-permitting, and this is also the time to serve up some substantial canapés - this means that dinner can be delayed if the sun is still up.
- Season with salt and as much verjuice as will only turn the taste of the pottage; serve up covering meat with whole herbs and adorning the dish with sippets.
- Its enemies, circling like bold buzzards, want to serve up our schools to the marketplace, where the point of reference is what maximizes profit rather than what benefits children.