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"Duty" in a Sentence (21 examples)
You must account for your neglect of duty.
You must perform your duty.
You had better not smoke while on duty.
What time are you going on duty?
You must work very hard on duty.
The police officer on duty sensed an elderly man coming up behind him.
Smoking on duty is not allowed.
Don't smoke while you are on duty.
It is the students' duty to clean their classrooms.
Try to fulfill your duty.
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Do your duty by me! -No, we don't have a duty to keep you abreast.
1805, 21 October, Horatio Nelson England expects that every man will do his duty.
Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
I’m on duty from 6 pm to 6 am.
customs duty; excise duty
Take that which is thy duty, and goo thy waye.
my duty to you
It [the letter] was written with a plain, unaffected, homely piety that I knew to be genuine, and ended with ‘my duty to my ever darling’—meaning myself.
The basic idea in housebreaking is not to wait until the puppy sins and then punish him; it is to call nature to your aid and thus make it easy for him to do his duty.
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