Sentence for duty | Use duty in a sentence

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• I did my duty. (12)
• It was his duty. (4)
• It was her superior duty. (4)
• She felt it to be her duty. (12)
• A plain duty lay in her way. (10)
• He was asleep at his post of duty. (1)
• I felt that it was my duty to her. (9)
• But let that be: I serve duty too. (10)
• I am sure it is our duty to love it. (10)
• She never forgot or neglected a duty. (14)
• Do you not understand duty to parents? (10)
• Her duty done, she marched from the piano. (10)
• I have tried to do my duty by that position. (8)
• Was it her duty to live an incomplete life? (10)
• I look beyond the day; I owe a duty to my line. (10)
• It is my duty to put some considerations before you. (8)
• I have prayed to be shown what her duty is, and mine. (8)
• Something occurred, however, to give her a different duty. (4)
• Because she thinks it a duty, we will say; that is juster. (10)
• That, it appeared, was to be for her when she came off duty. (8)
• I understood very early that it was my duty to imitate them. (10)
• He spoke like a man who did always a little more than his duty. (13)
• What that duty may precisely be, is his most difficult problem. (16)
• This young woman is a very sword in the hand of her idea of duty. (10)
• You must allow me to judge where my duty lay, in a very hard case. (8)
• Both of them divined that the book was there to do duty for Roland. (10)
• Still, he considered; he had wits alive enough, just to perceive a duty. (10)
• Ripton tipped his comical nose upward, and was in duty bound to say, Yes! (10)
• You will suffer too, in your tenderness for her; but you must do your duty. (9)
• I have studied out what my duty is and I have worked to get ready to go now. (18)
• The clear duty of a man of any wealth is to serve the people as he best can. (10)
• Orders were obeyed with mechanical fidelity; no one did any more than his duty. (1)
• Let your enamoured sensations follow that duty, and with a breezy space between. (10)
• I thought it my duty as a friend, and older than yourself, to say thus much to you. (4)
• It is just the instant, granting the catastrophe, to have a woman back to her duty. (10)
• But dinner unites the idea of pleasure and duty, and brings you gently back to earth. (9)
• There should be no connection whatever between public duty and the feelings of a man. (8)
• But the soldiers did their best to perform their painful duty as humanely as they could. (19)
• But as guardians of morality, often doing good duty in their office, they are persistent. (10)
• Such were the common exercises of those days when the pupils were kept on duty at the school. (3)
• To hear her duty as a woman Mrs. Hughs turned; slow vindictiveness gathered on her thin face. (8)
• I should have considered it as part of my duty, and the exertion would soon have been nothing. (4)
• She conceived it to be neither sublime nor generous: not even good; merely her peculiar duty. (10)
• The rest of life is duty; duty to parents, duty to country. (10)
• She marked a line where the light of duty should not encroach on the light of our human desires. (10)
• The lady said she would have an interview with Richard, and then write, as it was her duty to do. (10)
• Eyes, lips, hearts; darts and smarts and sighs; beauty, duty; bosom, blossom; false one, farewell! (10)
• After an interval, the Fair Persian having done duty by showing herself, was glad to quit the room. (10)
• He could afford to smile now at his past discomfort, having no longer the sense of duty unfulfilled. (8)
• I cannot feel it in accordance with my duty to Society to exercise the powers I have in your favour. (8)
• We will assign him to post duty and recommend giving him West Point, if he declines to take the field. (18)
• Their course is to do their duty manfully and honestly for the present; posterity can take care of itself. (19)
• She could fancy that she was protecting him, and through this duty she was better protected against herself. (12)
• But he, whose duty it was to look after the property of The Blue Pike, would spoil their pleasure in thieving. (5)
• To speak of his practising neglect or failing in a duty would be unbecoming in me as well as incorrect in fact. (12)
• Poor duty is done by the simple sense of moral worth, to supplant that absence of feature in the plain flat back. (10)
• They are very unlike each other, and my duty to the artist requires me to try and look as much like each as I can. (14)
• Celebrated minstrels were maintained in the royal courts whose duty it was to chant songs in praise of their patrons. (3)
• He assured her that in future she must; that such was his express desire; that it was her duty to herself and others. (10)
• The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. (9)
• They were too busy to be just; he was looked upon as one who had shirked his duty, until forced unwillingly into the field. (1)
• But the intemperate feeling subsided while she was doing duty before her mirror, and the visionary gulf closed immediately. (10)
• Your duty is to go forward with stout hearts, firm steps, and kindling eyes; in this way alone shall we defeat our common enemies. (8)
• But his chief feeling was a bewildered anger that for doing what seemed to him his duty, he should be attacked by his parishioners. (8)
• She could now look forward to giving him that full and perfect confidence which her disposition was most ready to welcome as a duty. (4)
• When found so warped, Mr. Pendyce was at a loss, and would walk up and down, earnestly trying to discover what his duty was to them. (8)
• For three days or more they were, it would seem, to journey together, alone together: the prosecution of his duty imposed it on him. (10)
• He had not, however, been instructed to apply for an adjournment, and in default of such instruction he conceived it his duty to go on. (8)
• Italian soldiers seem to think that the army only did its duty, and that, wherever Italians may fight, they will always show equal valour and firmness. (10)
• By general understanding, the experienced cruiser, or Admiral of the fleet, was expected to do the cooking, and he had made elaborate preparations for this duty. (20)

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