Example sentences for: duties

How can you use “duties” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He continued the duties of examiner even after his retirement in 1869 to Marlesford, Suffolk, when he completed his Sanskrit editing.

  • The Director of Central Intelligence had once had a national intelligence officer for terrorism to coordinate analysis; that office was abolished in the late 1980s and its duties absorbed in part by the Counterterrorist Center.

  • One of the many unpleasant duties of Holocaust historians involves rounding out the portrait of Allied indifference to the genocide of the Jews during World War II.

  • The first story argues that Starr has found no grounds for impeachment, only "technical violations of criminal law that have no obvious connection to the president's official duties, which was precisely the vision [of impeachment] that the Framers [of the Constitution] rejected."

  • The New York Times leads with word that "a federal advisory panel has decided to recommend abolishing the troubled Immigration and Naturalization Service and assigning its duties to other government agencies."


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