serviceable

How To Use serviceable In A Sentence

• You may get quite serviceable clothes delivered by the boxload to your front door. Baby clothing: Consider used
• His kitchen is small but perfectly serviceable, especially for a doctor who tends to order room service or eat in restaurants.
• Under the program, items are either verified as unserviceable or are repaired and returned to service.
• If you can't afford the really nice mandolines, the plastic ones are perfectly serviceable.
• And I must say she's been a very serviceable vehicle.
• Smoking was initially restricted to the bar area of the clubhouse after an unserviceable extractor fan was removed during a £26,000 refurbishment earlier in the year.
• Stromboli Smith OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
• Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style. The Certain Hour
• The refortified walls were often the ancient structures (sometimes, indeed, pre-Augustan); but if these were either absent or totally unserviceable, new walls might be built from scratch.
• George S. Hillard, a most faithful and serviceable friend, -- not only to Hawthorne during his life, but afterwards as a trustee for his family, and equally kind and helpful to them in their bereavement, which is more than could be said of all his friends, -- especially of The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne