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Example sentences for "service"

Lexicographically close words:
servest; servet; serveth; servi; servicais; serviceability; serviceable; serviceableness; serviceberry; serviced
  1. It was Christianity that created the atmosphere in which "the enthusiasm of humanity" and zeal for social service could flourish.

  2. The religion of humanity must look outside itself for its highest inspiration for social service and for the norm of social progress.

  3. Conversion and sanctification, once regarded as themes for the theological cloister, the revival service or the closet of devotion, have become familiar topics of the text-books and commonplaces of the lecture room.

  4. Each of our four philosophers has performed an important service for religious thought.

  5. His death is the supreme expression of self-sacrifice for the good of others, and in it by implication is the highest service done to man.

  6. The portion appropriated to divine service covers an area of seventy thousand square feet.

  7. Church is over, and it is customary after the service for every one to promenade up and down this street.

  8. They will be found excellent practice for those preparing for Civil Service Examinations.

  9. A glance indicates the department or service for which every slip is intended.

  10. Many small retail merchants delay ordering until the last minute, and the wholesale house which can give the promptest service gets the business.

  11. The next improvement was necessitated by a desire on the part of those wholesale groceries which are located in cities having an efficient interurban electric car service to fill orders at different hours of the day.

  12. Admit affectionate freedom, and you shall have at your service myself and my all; insist on servility, and you shall have neither.

  13. And on this wise came the abbot Turold to Peterborough, and the monks came then again, and did Christ’s service in their church, which had stood a full sennight without any sort of rite.

  14. The nobles, given over to gluttony and lust, used not to attend church in the morning in Christian fashion, but lay in bed till late hours and idly listened to the service of matins and masses from the lips of a hurrying priest.

  15. To hold in “almoin” is to hold by the sole service of prayers for the grantor.

  16. A socman holds land by the service of attending the lords’ court or soke.

  17. And some add in the oath, and well so, that faithfully and without diminution, contradiction or hindrance or unjust delay, the tenant will do his service to his lord and his heirs at the stated terms.

  18. It is a singular thing that to Bath should have belonged both Ralph Allen and John Palmer; the men who respectively developed the postal service and founded mail-coaches.

  19. But after service he was generally to be seen going back to his inn.

  20. It is too late to be of any service there, but the other buildings can be saved, and the hose is quickly unwound and attached to the well.

  21. In less than five minutes more service is done than the lines of hard-working men and women could accomplish in an hour.

  22. He was one of the first to pass out of the open doors when the service was ended, and very few knew of his presence.

  23. His own record of unselfish service during the war, and his passionate desire for a sane and ordered world were too unquestionable for his meaning to be misunderstood.

  24. It seems to bring back the fog, and going to early Service past that coffee-stall, and the smell of that shop next to the Surrey Arms.

  25. He had been in the Civil Service, and suffered much from fever; yet he was leaving the Service for other reasons as well as that particular one.

  26. That night of the first Service was very starry, and the morning of the second Service was brilliantly clear, the rain seemed to be very far away for the time being.

  27. While we hurried along from the Service on our way to the station (Reeve was coming to see me off), I quoted some words to him.

  28. We had a glorious service in a quaint church of wattles and earth and grass on a hill-top.

  29. I came away long after the church service was over when the poor beast died with frothing at the nose.

  30. We had finished our service before the day grew hot, in the prime and cool of the morning.

  31. We discussed Intelligence Work a branch of War Service as to which I am apt to be prejudiced.

  32. When this I meditate, methinks the flowers Have spirits far more generous than ours, And give us fair examples to despise The servile fawnings and idolatries Wherewith we court these earthly things below, Which merit not the service we bestow.

  33. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing Grasses have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever.

  34. This kind of service Did not deserve Corn gratis.

  35. Buck by the service of finding straw for the bed of the Lord the King, and to strew his chamber, and also of finding for the King when he comes to Alesbury straw for his bed, and besides this Grass or Rushes to make his chamber pleasant.

  36. When all other service is vain from plant and tree, the soft Mosses and grey Lichens take up their watch by the headstone.

  37. The "Servants of India" are as much the objects of solicitation on the part of the secret service men as the members of the Arya Samaj.

  38. It is an open secret that the secret service records have assigned a particular number to every public leader in India.

  39. Indian public services competition in India from in India and in England instead persons already appointed to the of any service being recruited Provincial Civil Service.

  40. That all distinctions based on race be removed, and that appointments to all branches of the public service be made without racial discrimination" (Paragraph 315).

  41. The annual recruitment in India for the Indian Civil Service should be 50 per cent to start with, and that Indians be granted at least 25 per cent of the Commissions in Army and the proportion be gradually increased.

  42. It has been in effect much more of a government corporation than of a purely civil service in the English sense.

  43. There must be no such sudden swamping of any service with any new element that its whole character suffers a rapid alteration.

  44. It has been made a reproach to the Indian Civil Service that it regards itself as the Government; but a view which strikes the critic familiar with parliamentary government as arrogant is little more than a condensed truth.

  45. The children's service shall be held on the Sunday following Communion Day.

  46. Easter Services The editor of The Christian Science Journal said that at three o'clock, the hour for the church service proper, the pastor, Rev.

  47. In her impatience for some certain happiness, she felt as if she were taking a step toward that end by thus devoting all her moments to the service of a beloved being whom she wished to see once more well and happy.

  48. At this moment appeared Martine, the only servant, become the real mistress of the house, after nearly thirty years of service with the doctor.

  49. She was a stout, vigorous girl, attached especially to the service of the madwoman.

  50. Come, since good fortune has sent you, I am going to ask another service from you.

  51. The time of service of the Porter commences and ends in alternation with that of night watchman.

  52. A sound between a sigh and bray,' may pronounce the familiar but respectable words, the burial-service of a time so happy!

  53. Like a politic islander, he allowed the patriotic spectacle to be imagined; reflecting that it did a sort of service abroad, and had only to be unmasked at home.

  54. My husband will congratulate me on the pleasure I have, and have long desired, of making your acquaintance, and he will grieve that he has not been so fortunate; he is on service in Africa.

  55. With their service assured, the life was more than tolerable, infinitely superior to that which he would have led at home.

  56. Low-pitched, his voice yet carried to every ear, as did her clear reply: "After the service is over.

  57. For ceremony and service had been stripped of the lugubrious attributes which gave mournful satisfaction to the primitive mind.

  58. For the mental suffering which, lacking an outlet, burns inwardly till naught is left of feeling but slag and cinders, becomes the strongest of motor forces when expended in service for others.

  59. Provisions were found there, and a large supply of fuel intended for the service of the temple.

  60. He had stood beside him at the edge of the breach, and had done good service there.

  61. You may do us good service by finding out what are the intentions of the Mexicans.

  62. He was a kinsman of the Governor of Cuba, and Narvaez had, on landing, sent to him begging him to quit the service of Cortez, and march with his troops to join him.

  63. Two ships fitted out by the Governor of Jamaica also put into port, to repair damages after a storm; and their crews were also persuaded, by the liberal promises of Cortez, to abandon their service and join him.

  64. They were each devoted to the service of some particular deity, and had quarters provided within the spacious precincts of his temple.

  65. Had I known that we were coming here to be butchers, I would never have taken service under Cortez.

  66. The Aztecs never kill if they can help it, but take prisoners, so that death comes to them in one way instead of another; and it is better to be killed in the service of the gods, than to fall uselessly in battle.

  67. In Germany every man becomes liable to military service on his seventeenth birthday, and remains liable until he is turned forty-five.

  68. The terms compulsory service and universal service are neither of them strictly accurate.

  69. But the words ought to make us think of what he is fit for and of what service he renders to the nation.

  70. Their service is not a contract but a public duty, and while performing it they are clothed, lodged, and fed by the State.

  71. The service she thus rendered to Europe had its reward in the monopoly of sea power which lasted through the nineteenth century.

  72. It may have been able and willing to continue the fight, though the enemy drew off, and its commander may be promoted or decorated for having maintained the credit of his country or of the service to which he belongs.

  73. The system of universal service has been established longer in Germany than in any other State, and can best be explained by an account of its working in that country.

  74. Those who permit Volunteers in their service to take holidays longer than are customary in their trade and district, are making in the public interest a sacrifice which some of them think excessive.

  75. But it is doubtful whether the navy can be effectively manned on a system of very short service such as is inevitable for a national army.

  76. The idea of the nation leads to the right way of looking at these matters, because it constrains every man to put himself and all that he has at the service of the community.

  77. On declaration of war in the earlier reigns, it was usual to issue a proclamation offering a general pardon to those guilty of homicides and felonies on condition of service for a year and a day.

  78. Sometimes a convicted criminal was allowed to choose between a year's imprisonment in Newgate or taking service under the Crown.

  79. They pester the gaol, which is already reported crowded, this hot weather, and would do better service as soldiers if pardoned, 'for they would not dare to run away.

  80. For this, although he had already done good service to the Parliamentary cause and had earned the grade of Lieutenant-Colonel in the field, he is first questioned, then sent to Newgate.

  81. English officers in the service of the States.

  82. We gave our service to one another in a glass of wine, drawn by Dame Spurling, the fat hostess who kept the tap in the Lodge.

  83. He entered the navy as a midshipman, but left the service in consequence of a dispute with Lord Sandwich.

  84. For this they were sharply reproved by the king, and ordered to release him immediately, "as he was employed in important state service which privileged him from arrest.

  85. A large proportion of the most famous highwaymen of the eighteenth century had been in service at some time or other.

  86. Mr. Hackman had held a commission in the 68th Foot, and while employed on the recruiting service at Huntingdon, had been hospitably received at Hinchingbroke, the seat of Lord Sandwich.

  87. Character is, and always has been, the motive power of the world; and only through finding his own development of character in the service of the world can the individual man find his appointed place as its citizen.

  88. Surely Emperor Euphrates would have given her to him, and kept both in his service lest he lose Si'Wren's valuable services as Royal Scribe.

  89. She desperately needed to personify somehow, with but her mere appearance, the fearsome aspect of sheer awe and awfulness of her high station in Imperial service to his highness, the Emperor Euphrates, said Ibi.

  90. It was a memorable day spent in service to the Emperor, and Si'Wren adapted readily and willingly to the routine.

  91. I swore that I never more would use it in the service of France, or of the new Sovereign of the nation.

  92. After exhorting him to secrecy, and making a great mystery of the matter, I confessed that I was a Colonel in the French army, and that an officer who held a high rank in the service of Napoleon had married my sister.

  93. Never did I receive from him any favours or gifts: I entered his service rich, I quitted it poor.

  94. Gift is now almost always used in the good sense, bribe always in the evil sense to signify payment for a dishonorable service under the semblance of a gift.

  95. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity.

  96. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital.

  97. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done.

  98. A person may be employed in his own work or in that of another; in the latter case the service is always understood to be for pay.

  99. Mrs. Carlyle, she left her service to restore her own self-respect.

  100. Here Mr, Davies, for so many years incumbent of the Old Church, spent much of his time, which was always at the service of inquiring visitors.

  101. I suppose you're in service and you've broken this bowl.

  102. Another effect was the idea of service to the country.

  103. All over the country you will find the service men keen to put down demonstrations of this sort.

  104. Up a shaky ladder, which had been doing service for generations, is the hay-loft.

  105. Lieutenant Holmes and Sergeant Murphy received the Distinguished Service Cross for this work; and well deserved it, for they showed the way and did a really hard job.

  106. In a certain way this has been supplied to the service men by what they have done for the country.

  107. Again, first, last, and always, the service man is an American!

  108. The other day I was in a city where a Bolshevist meeting had been broken up by some service men.

  109. Most of them up to this time had not been interested in it, and had felt vaguely that compulsory military training and service was synonymous with the German system and was not democratic.

  110. They understood close-order work, the service rifle, and the handling of men, and to them a large part of the early training is ascribable.

  111. In this war nearly half of the men of military age were refused admission to the service for physical defects.

  112. All during my service in Europe, Legge served with me.

  113. If he had been a man of an older division and had seen sufficient service he would have been doing what was necessary when Colonel Palmer arrived.

  114. We were constantly listening to discussions on military matters, and there was always at least one service rifle in the house.

  115. The service man feels that this is his country.

  116. At this time the average man did not know what military training and service meant.


  117. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "service" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acquiescence; activity; advantage; affair; affairs; agency; allegiance; appointment; appropriateness; arm; assignment; assistance; avail; back; bag; ball; behalf; behoof; benefaction; benefit; benevolence; benignity; berth; billet; blessing; bowl; branch; cast; celebration; ceremonial; ceremony; charge; chore; chuck; chunk; church; cohabit; comfort; commencement; commerce; commission; compliance; concern; condition; conformity; convenience; convocation; copulate; couple; course; courtesy; cover; curve; darn; dessert; device; devotions; diddle; dish; dispensation; doctor; duty; ease; employ; employment; engagement; enterprise; entree; errand; evensong; exercise; expedient; faith; favor; fealty; fitness; fix; fling; flip; form; formal; formality; formula; formulary; function; gear; gig; grace; graduation; heave; help; helping; homage; homework; hurl; inaugural; inauguration; incumbency; inferiority; initiation; institution; instrumentality; interest; job; kindness; labor; lateral; lay; liturgy; lookout; loyalty; machinery; mate; matins; matter; mechanism; mediation; meeting; mend; mercy; military; ministration; ministry; mission; moonlighting; mount; mummery; mystery; novena; obligation; observance; occupation; office; opening; ordinance; ordinary; overhaul; pass; patch; peg; percentage; performance; pitch; place; plate; point; portion; position; post; practice; prayer; prime; profit; project; protection; put; ready; recourse; relevance; relief; remedy; repair; rescue; resort; revival; rig; rigging; rite; ritual; sacramental; screw; serve; service; servility; serving; sinker; situation; sling; solemnity; station; stint; submission; subordination; subservience; succor; support; tackle; task; tenure; therapy; thing; throw; tinker; toss; turn; undertaking; use; usefulness; utility; vacancy; value; vesper; vigil; whipping; willingness; work; worth


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    service reform; service rendered; service rules