turn to account
Example Sentences
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In every farming community there will be one or two ingenious or ambitious women who do something which is not general, and which they would gladly turn to account.
From How to make rugs by Wheeler, Candace
Give him any period in any country that is romantic, and he will soon steep himself in the kind of knowledge he can best turn to account.
From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
A less spiritual workman might have allowed the thing to pass, under the idea that it might turn to account and help forward the work.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)
His restless mind, ever on the alert for intelligence that he might turn to account, was gathering information concerning the city.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.
The Parisian scholars were now stimulated to turn to account the treasure which had remained so long neglected on their shelves.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling
