sendee
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sendee
Example Sentences
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Born in Indiana, assaulted Consul Chamberlain spent his boyhood in Kansas, graduated from a California high school to become the youngest member of the U. S. foreign sendee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Older than any Senator, with a far longer period of continuous Senate sendee, is Theodore F. Shuey, for 61 years a short-hand reporter of Senate debates.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a task force of 22 other warships spread across the sea for miles around her, the aircraft carrier Wasp plowed east in mid-Atlantic one night last week, bound for sendee in the Mediterranean.
From Time Magazine Archive
I asked him to pray God to hold me in his sendee.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
By complimenting the sendee, Tessie hadn’t intended to compliment Father Greg.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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