DUTY in a Sentence

Learn DUTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
301 example sentences for DUTY, such as:
1. It's our duty to save water.
2. But they had a duty to society.
3. His sense of duty is very strong.
4. I merely wished to discharge my duty.
5. He failed completely in the performance of his duty.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DUTY
duty
 n.  a government tax on imports or exports
 n.  the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  "In that case it is clearly our duty, in the interests of justice, to take his statement," said the Inspector.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
4  I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
5  Some of the animals talked of the duty of loyalty to Mr. Jones, whom they referred to as "Master," or made elementary remarks such as "Mr. Jones feeds us."
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
6  They were going; above all things, she desired cold water, a beaker of cold water; but desire petered out, suppressed by the leaden duty she owed to others.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
7  But they had a duty to society.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
8  And now," he resumed, cuddling the pipe lighter in the palm of his hand, "for the pleasantest part of my duty.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
9  Poole," replied the lawyer, "if you say that, it will become my duty to make certain.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
10  I merely wished to discharge my duty.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
11  If to see him is any part of the duty I have accepted, I will see him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
12  Stephen, whose way had been in the contrary direction, turned about, and betook himself as in duty bound, to the red brick castle of the giant Bounderby.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
13  Neither duty nor infirmity could keep youth or age from such exhibitions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  Having announced these precautions, the heralds concluded with an exhortation to each good knight to do his duty, and to merit favour from the Queen of Beauty and of Love.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  The knight returned him thanks for his courtesy; and, this duty done, both resumed their seats by the table, whereon stood the trencher of pease placed between them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
1  Most people accept the proposition that we have a duty to protect endangered animals.
2  The duty of the agency is to act in the best interests of the child.
3  The state has a duty to protect its citizens against external enemies.
4  When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,he always declared that it is his duty.
5  When stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
6  All authority was vested in the woman, who discharged every kind of public duty.
7  It is part of the chairman's duty to keep each speaker to the point to avoid wasting time.
8  Here is the duty roster for all the members of the scout troop.
9  His sense of duty is very strong.
10  I don't want you to visit me simply out of a sense of duty.
11  It's our duty to save water.
12  Only they who fulfill their duty in everday matters will fulfill them on great occasions.
13  They claim that the wine is for personal use and so evade the duty.
14  Local councillors have a duty to serve the community.
15  He failed completely in the performance of his duty.