ADVANTAGE in a Sentence

Learn ADVANTAGE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
267 example sentences for ADVANTAGE, such as:
1. She had the advantage of a good education.
2. You have the advantage of me in experience.
3. The advantage of the idea was its simplicity.
4. Breastfeeding offers a clear advantage to your baby.
5. Her clever opening gambit gave her an early advantage.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ADVANTAGE
advantage
 n.  benefit resulting from some event or action
 n.  the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacking and laying out our property to the best advantage.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  I had long determined that he should have a show for his life if he chose to take advantage of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  How well they succeeded, and how quickly I took advantage of it, are still fresh in your recollection.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
4  They continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity, simply took advantage of it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
5  At heart, each of them was secretly wondering whether he could not somehow turn Jones's misfortune to his own advantage.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
6  The advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well, was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
7  And the human figure was seen to great advantage against a background of sky.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
8  But I must go, you know, whether I like it or not; and I had better go where I can take with me some advantage of your influence, than where I should lose it altogether.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
9  Two or three lamps were rained out and blown out; so, both saw the lightning to advantage as it quivered and zigzagged on the iron tracks.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
10  Her form was exquisitely symmetrical, and was shown to advantage by a sort of Eastern dress, which she wore according to the fashion of the females of her nation.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  The fifth knight alone maintained the honour of his party, and parted fairly with the Knight of St John, both splintering their lances without advantage on either side.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  But none shared the general feeling of dissatisfaction so keenly as Cedric the Saxon, who saw, in each advantage gained by the Norman challengers, a repeated triumph over the honour of England.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  Over this champion the Disinherited Knight obtained a slight but decisive advantage.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  It was therefore necessary, that Fitzurse should open to them new prospects of advantage, and remind them of those which they at present enjoyed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  It was about the hour of noon, therefore, when De Bracy, for whose advantage the expedition had been first planned, appeared to prosecute his views upon the hand and possessions of the Lady Rowena.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  The kernel of that message was that peace must not be a source of advantage or disad-vantage for anyone.
2  Breastfeeding offers a clear advantage to your baby.
3  The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know.
4  Her Olimpic experience gave her a big advantage over the other contestants for the final victory.
5  Her experience meant that she had a big advantage over her opponent.
6  This has the advantage that the cases referred to will be brought within the single concept of dishonest appropriation.
7  Take advantage of weekends to pretend you're happy for a couple days.
8  Her clever opening gambit gave her an early advantage.
9  She had the advantage of a good education.
10  You have the advantage of me in experience.
11  Qualifications are important but practical experience is always an advantage.
12  Victory in the last game gave them a psychological advantage over their opponents.
13  The opposition parties will always exploit government problems to their own advantage.
14  The advantage of the idea was its simplicity.
15  An even distribution has an added advantage, the institution will be better able to cope with the Unpredictable.