subserve
verb (used with object)
to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.).
will subserve
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future tenseof subserve.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The writer who seeks merely to cater to current tastes with each tale will do well to devise fictions that will subserve his purpose naturally.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
And mark each passage in accordance with its main purpose or function, for many passages will subserve more than one end.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
To quicken the intellect and imagination of Ireland, to co-ordinate our economic life for the general good, should be the objects of national policy, and will subserve the evolutionary purpose.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
For fancy itself will subserve the true imagination of the mystic, and so be glorified.
From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by George MacDonald
How well these advantages will subserve his progress, his interest—depend upon the confidence and faith which they will inspire in him toward himself.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
