serve (something) up

Examples of served

served

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The teachers, as working women who were active in civic affairs, served as role models to the pupils.
Our paper served to report about specific systems, a composition, and a performance.
In fact, the controlled laboratory events that served as the mnemonic targets of this investigation were relatively pedestrian.
This practice is, perhaps, more critical in the preparation of fish served with bones in and skin on, than in the cooking of fillets.
Finally, experimentation with replicas of the jade plaques demonstrates that these, too, could have served as elite tools.
Our understanding of reading would be best served by attention to the dimensionalities necessary to explain observed sensorimotor behaviors and their implications for physiological processes.
This is related, in part, to the different purposes served by different fees.
It provided an uncompromising norm for human judgment, much as strict ethical demands had served as standards of behavior.
Two elementary schools prepared food in their own kitchens and served 770 students.
On the contrary, they have served their purpose well, particularly in identifying and classifying the characteristics of computer attacks and intrusions.
What one wore to dinner, where one sat and with whom, and what one ate and drank all served as indexes of class.
This served the purpose of identification as well as to approximate the handling given to treatment beetles during ablation of appendages.
Yet he did not believe that the army's interests would be served by ignoring differences of rank.
News of artists' arrests and confiscation of their material served only to popularise their name and created a higher demand for their tapes.
This has served as a benchmark for what happened when the challenge of dementia care arose.
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