turn to account

Example Sentences

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Miss Greta might quite innocently have remembered and retailed enough to Mr. Ernst for him to turn to account.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth

But they inspired nothing that I could turn to account in my lady's album; nothing that could serve to introduce the compliment always expected in the last stanza.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

If you are a writer of fiction, have a large book for memorandums, of any amusing or remarkable things you may chance to hear, and which you may turn to account afterward.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

There exist accordingly the political conditions of a democratic alliance which it is the business of the British Liberal to turn to account.

From Liberalism by Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny)

In one he aimed at being brilliant; and becoming merely laboured and pedantic, he was covered with ridicule by Sheridan, from whom he received a lesson which he did not fail to turn to account.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various