to advantage

Example Sentences

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This novel, winner of the Booker Prize, uses a blunt, clipped style to advantage, exposing Istvan as an exemplar of both toxic masculinity and hinting at what’s required to escape it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Wolff said F1 should consider introducing a rule to prevent teams using one car to back up the field to advantage another driver, as both Racing Bulls and Williams did on Sunday.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

Libel law has traditionally been more favorable to plaintiffs there, even leading to “libel tourism,” where plaintiffs sue in British courts to advantage their cause.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022

Colored walls display to advantage the museum’s deep collection of Charles Willson Peale and other American painters.

From New York Times • May 30, 2021

Sometimes he made business errors, but even these he turned to advantage in good will if in no other way.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck