It cannot be easily rendered unserviceable by thorn, nail, or spike of any sort.

The farriers went round to examine those which had been rendered unserviceable by their hurts.

But all these resources are rendered unserviceable, ineffectual, unprofitable, by those who traffic in them.

Provisions were running short in camp, the ammunition was almost exhausted, and numbers of the guns were rendered unserviceable.

The juice, it may be thought, will be changed by the addition of a strong acid, and rendered unserviceable.

This seemed to show that they had been rendered unserviceable, or at least unsightly, by the walk she had taken.

Having therefore delayed only till the abandoned guns were rendered unserviceable, on the evening of the 18th it also began its retreat.