Served is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Served in a sentence
Related words
Served meaning
simple past and past participle of serve
Using Served
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of serve
- In the example corpus, served often appears in combinations such as: served as, served in, served on.
Context around Served
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Served
- In this selection, "served" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sweets, best, everyone, forty, five and christ stand out and add context to how "served" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2016 then served as mayor and alice also served on the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "served" sits close to words such as ways, break and european, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with served
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
If he won the presidency he believed that American society would be best served if everyone served Christ. (18 words)
No matter what portion you served, no matter if you served just one day or you served forty years. (19 words)
I stand here tonight having served as long as about any one of you who have ever served here. (19 words)
In his response, Hussaini agreed he was served the motion, but urged the court to adjourn its sitting to enable him respond to the motion, arguing that the matter was not ripe for hearing as he was just served with the application today (Tuesday). (44 words)
Since 2005, Colangelo has served as Managing Director of the USA Basketball Men’s Senior National Team program, and he has served as he has served as Chairman of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame since 2009. (38 words)
He served in several callings in the L.D.S. Church including missionary in the Western Canadian Mission, Branch president in British Columbia, Bishop and served on the High Council in Henderson, Nevada along with various teaching callings. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
No matter what portion you served, no matter if you served just one day or you served forty years.
Since 2005, Colangelo has served as Managing Director of the USA Basketball Men’s Senior National Team program, and he has served as he has served as Chairman of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame since 2009.
Alice also served on the Parent Teacher Association and served as president of Kate Burgess and Northwest Junior High PTA, as well as president of the citywide PTA.
Gokul Sweets served many kinds of kulfi, including pistachio and saffron, which were all served on sticks, making it easy to hold and eat.
He has served as the MP for Braintree in Essex since 2015, and has served in a number of roles in government, including Tory chair, education secretary, and most recently foreign secretary.
He is a veteran who served five years with Sayeret Matkal, an Israeli Special Forces unit in which Mr. Netanyahu also served.
He served in several callings in the L.D.S. Church including missionary in the Western Canadian Mission, Branch president in British Columbia, Bishop and served on the High Council in Henderson, Nevada along with various teaching callings.
He served on the Town Council from 2002-2016, then served as mayor for two years before becoming a county commissioner.
If he won the presidency he believed that American society would be best served if everyone served Christ.
In addition to serving on the Arlington County Board for eight years, she served on numerous boards including the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission where she also served as Chair.
In his response, Hussaini agreed he was served the motion, but urged the court to adjourn its sitting to enable him respond to the motion, arguing that the matter was not ripe for hearing as he was just served with the application today (Tuesday).
I stand here tonight having served as long as about any one of you who have ever served here.
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC served as placement agent to Paine Schwartz, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel.
Mahlon Dickerson served in the militia during the Whiskey Rebellion, and Gov. Rodman Price served in the Mexican War.
Morgan’s parents both served in the military — her mother, Jennifer, was in the Navy and her father, Thomas, served in the Army.
Regarding the dispute about whether the parking space loss notice had been served correctly, Mr Evans told the committee that it was served to the leaseholder of Ms Aherne’s house – Network Homes – in accordance with regulations.
Reservations are not accepted; the brunch is a first-come, first-served set-up, and all food is served a la carte.
Robert is originally from Arkansas and has served in the Salvation Army for 40 years, while Shannon has served for 30 years and is returning home, as she is originally from Southeast Texas.
Served in the beautiful Hillfield Bar, the decadent homemade spread will be served elegantly on a three tier stand boasting lots of classic flavours associated to the most magical time of the year.
She served on three shuttle missions, and later served as undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere, and administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Common combinations with served
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- served as 113×
- served in 52×
- served on 39×
- he served 30×
- and served 27×
- has served 22×
- served with 19×
- also served 16×
- served by 14×
- who served 13×