ADVANTAGEOUS in a Sentence

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1. She had the advantage of a good education.
2. You have the advantage of me in experience.
3. Membership of the union could prove advantageous.
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 ADVANTAGEOUS
advantageous
 a.  giving an advantage
 a.  appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Of course, this very stupid thing, this caprice of ours, may be in reality, gentlemen, more advantageous for us than anything else on earth, especially in certain cases.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
2  No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
3  Anna Mikhaylovna, practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself and her son.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
4  Sophie," he began, timidly at first and then more and more boldly, "if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XI
5  But the question whether the camp was advantageous or disadvantageous remained for him undecided.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
6  One of the most obvious and advantageous departures from the so-called laws of war is the action of scattered groups against men pressed together in a mass.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
7  Men who want to fight will always put themselves in the most advantageous conditions for fighting.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
8  "Speak, monsieur, speak," said d'Artagnan, who instinctively scented something advantageous.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
9  I know you to be a man of resolution; and your services, well directed, instead of leading you to ill, might be very advantageous to you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 40 A TERRIBLE VISION
10  You have told me the truth, my gentlemen," said he, addressing the Musketeers, "and it will not be my fault if our encounter this evening be not advantageous to you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT
11  It is true that the habit of a novice, which the young woman wore, was not very advantageous in a contest of this kind.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
12  Such a choice were certainly the wisest and the most advantageous, could men be content to enjoy what is their own without seeking to lord it over others.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I.
13  Aristides reporting to the Athenians that the course proposed by Themistocles was extremely advantageous but extremely dishonourable, the people utterly refused to entertain it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LIX.
14  Moreover it was costly for the king to build, and shameful for him to lose this fortress; while for Ottaviano it was glorious to take, and advantageous to destroy it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV.
15  Turning their thoughts wholly to arms, the Romans always conducted their military enterprises in the most advantageous way, both as to cost and every other circumstance of war.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXXII.
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  The trade agreements is advantageous to both countries.
2  Membership of the union could prove advantageous.
3  The kernel of that message was that peace must not be a source of advantage or disad-vantage for anyone.
4  Breastfeeding offers a clear advantage to your baby.
5  The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know.
6  Her Olimpic experience gave her a big advantage over the other contestants for the final victory.
7  Her experience meant that she had a big advantage over her opponent.
8  This has the advantage that the cases referred to will be brought within the single concept of dishonest appropriation.
9  Take advantage of weekends to pretend you're happy for a couple days.
10  Her clever opening gambit gave her an early advantage.
11  She had the advantage of a good education.
12  You have the advantage of me in experience.
13  Qualifications are important but practical experience is always an advantage.
14  Victory in the last game gave them a psychological advantage over their opponents.
15  The opposition parties will always exploit government problems to their own advantage.