How to use "duty" in a sentence

"When I saw you fall into the water, sir, I felt it was my duty to follow you."

Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary

It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.

His duty is to administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.

Cooperation is a duty only so long as Government protects your honour, and non-cooperation is an equal duty when the Government, instead of protecting, robs you of your honour

This, I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us, bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in times of armed strife.

I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require

But, in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity; with the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious moral values; with the clean satisfaction that comes from the stern performance of duty by old and young alike

Inspector Joseph Chandler was on duty in Commercial Street at 6.10 a.m

Then she started singing quietly, and at 12.30 she asked the policeman on duty when she could go

Inspectors Beck and Dew, the detectives on duty, went to the murder scene

Nothing had changed, and he decided that he had one last duty to perform: he must send Cosette a final message and tell her of his death

'It's your duty not to die,' he told them

It's my duty, Sala

'It is my duty to wait for you, Madam,' Mrs Danvers said

'I've got to do my duty,' Captain Searle said

She managed to be both a fine dancer and a good mother, although that was not always easy; she loved Danny, and she enjoyed her work and she thrived on double duty.

Those on duty will be swamped with arraignments and bail hearings for drunken drivers and for people involved in drunken assaults

"Nevertheless, I have a duty to protect everyone's interests in the matter."

She hesitated, but then opened the door without removing the heavy-duty security chain

A group had gone down a while ago and would be returning for their last stand at the tables before a whole new staff came on duty with the shift change

That's why we're stuck with night-shift, baby-sitting duty like this."

Carlton Dombey, who had come on duty twenty minutes ago, sat at one of the tables against the north wall

Hazardous-duty pay

'My duty as the wife of a vicar

I said the things to her that it was my duty to say, remembering all the time how that morning I had said that a world without Colonel Protheroe would be a better place.

'I hope I would do my duty, Clement.'

'But which of those choices do you think would be your duty?'

But this is about duty.' I could see that she was enjoying herself

But it is my duty and...

'Well, it's her duty

A sister's duty.'

'Then it's my duty, a sister's duty, to tell her about something like this