Example Sentences

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The creative-minded midfielder, while standing out as part of a three-man block alongside the equally impressive Vitinha, has filled in more than serviceably at both right-back and left-back when called upon.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

He hits right handed and can play left field serviceably, and he’s coming off a 3.0 bWAR season in Arizona.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2023

A gifted filmmaker could, for example, probably make a serviceably disturbed movie about the background of Carrie White’s terrifying mom, but what would it say that wasn’t said already?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022

In these two movies — like so much of his résumé, serviceably amusing vehicles for his outsize talent — Hart makes for a towering comedic presence.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022

Such a spirit of militant patriotism as may serviceably be mobilised in support of warlike enterprise has accordingly been a condition precedent to any people's entry into the modern Concert of Nations.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein