Adequately functioning

Usage examples of serviceable.

Similarly the numerous groups of recent alien provenance are artificially prevented from assimilating and becoming Americans, since every alien-thinking group in America is serviceable to Culture-distortion.

The clothes were extremely plain, without the tiniest frill or ornament, but the fabrics looked soft and serviceable and would be eminently warmer and more comfortable than the scratchy shirt and trousers of her sansculotte outfit.

As engineer officer I am always out and about between sorties so as not to lose any chance of getting one extra aircraft serviceable.

Jherek let him go, watching for a moment as the boy kicked away and swam in a crude dog paddle that seemed serviceable enough.

When the bartering was completed, Anakin had traded a little more than half of what he had brought as barter for two mechanic droids in excellent condition, three more multipurpose droids that were serviceable, and a damaged hyperdrive converter that he could put back into service in no time.

It was worth trying, especially since the only alternative was to stay here until he could get a serviceable transductor made, which might be never.

Gute wore a pendant necklace, anklets, and headband of intricate metallic beadwork, and worn but serviceable shoes.

While an average bootie wears through after just one or two runs, any lost booties that are still serviceable are worth retrieving, since they cost between sixty and eighty-five cents apiece.

Gardiner and the children were to remain in Hertfordshire a few days longer, as the former thought her presence might be serviceable to her nieces.

Then, remembering that calumny was a most serviceable weapon, he put about the town a report that the Indians from the missions had pillaged Yaguaron, and that they even then were marching on the place.

Some regard it as the best adjusted one in all its organs and tissues, and as the most satisfactory and serviceable.

There were also three pairs of serviceable cotton pantalets in the parcel, and Amanda realized then that he was trying to lift her spirits, to ease her feelings of humiliation.

I had long been aware that such trifling presents are often very serviceable.

To bring us to so salutary a determination, nothing can be more serviceable, than to be once thoroughly convinced of the force of the Pyrrhonian doubt, and of the impossibility, that anything, but the strong power of natural instinct, could free us from it.

Especially during Mass: for here was the stage, the dramatic field already prepared, serviceable to a seedtime fancy.