yeoman service
- a variation of yeoman's service.
Example Sentences
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A decade later, after what colleagues and constituents called the senator’s yeoman service as an advocate on health and environmental issues, a hidden side of Mr. Durenberger began to surface.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
Be that as it may, the iPhone 4 has done yeoman service, having made it to the hairy edge of functional usefulness.
From Forbes ● Jun. 16, 2014
Not all birds — just woodpeckers and owls, because, as you'll learn in this remarkable exhibition, many of them perform yeoman service in maintaining biological diversity, and they are especially important indicators of habitat health.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2011
Dean, as always the model of precision and doggedness, has performed yeoman service in this more-than-700-page monster of a book.
From Washington Post
In due time, in the idiom of the professionals, he "raised his plant," and the burglar's kit manufactured in the Connecticut State Prison did what Stoneman considered yeoman service.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin
