That article served as a blessing and a curse.

This article serves as a glossary of climate change terms.

But this article has not served the profession - or the public - well at all.

This article serves as an introduction to the practice of Audiometry.

Even useful articles usually serve a decorative purpose as well.

Your article should serve to stiffen the spines of the Democratic leaders.

The article should serve as a wake-up call for the dozens of local and state agencies designed to provide elder care.

An article like this serves to indicate how detached from the real world some people in newspaper land really are.

Finally, these articles serve to put more people off cycling which, at a time of dwindling natural resources, is very negative.

Those articles were often sensationalist and served to put the Society in a bad light.