Example sentences for: serviceable

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

  • That leaves a few slightly more anodyne but serviceable (sorry) entries.

  • It is all better than serviceable, less than exciting.

  • One wonders what goes on in publishers' minds: it seems quite obvious to me that if this were a good and serviceable inexpensive version of the dictionary on which it is said to be based, Cassell's English Dictionary , then the publisher might well expect that after a time the user would feel himself ready for the larger book and would buy the larger Cassell's . In the event, it seems unlikely that such an event would take place, for this book is a sad disappointment.

  • Much of it is fresh, serviceable language, not merely humdrum technical derivatives or the names of gadgets and aliens, and has certifiable potential to enter the English language.

  • In the context of the large number of dictionaries available (including all their different editions), the CCE is a serviceable work provided that one is satisfied with brief definitions of no great depth, and, essentially, a dictionary than can be used as a spelling checker.


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