How to Use advantage in a Sentence

advantage

1 of 2 noun
Definition of advantagenext
Synonyms for advantagenext
  • Speed is an advantage in most sports.
  • Among the advantages of a small college is its campus life.
  • Being able to set your own schedule is one of the advantages of owning a business.
  • He has an unfair advantage over us because of his wealth.
  • Higher ground gave the enemy the advantage.
  • His plan has the advantage of being less expensive than other options.
  • There isn't any advantage in leaving early.
  • He lacked the advantages of an advanced education.
  • Applicants for this job will find that previous experience is an advantage.
  • The company's only advantage over the competition is its location.
  • But the Swedes have held the advantage at the Olympics in recent years.
    — Anne M. Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • And when the Rams went three and out, the Steelers took advantage.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Arizona has the home field advantage, but that hasn’t helped them out for the past two games.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Polls show Labour has an advantage in an election that must be called by the end of next year.
    — Brian Melley, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2023
  • This feature is a huge advantage with this pair of shades.
    — Field & Stream Commerce Team, Field & Stream, 21 June 2023
  • So Jean-Baptiste, what are some of the advantages now with this motor?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The Warriors rallied with a 7-0 advantage in the fourth quarter.
    — Ledeai, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The saplings that survive have a huge advantage and grow taller and stronger, and sequester more carbon in their trunks.
    — Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
    — Nancy Black, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
  • After the Moon Alert is over, the Moon will move into your sign, which will give you an advantage over all the other signs.
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The Vikings will be a contender in the conference, and the winner of this game will have an early advantage in the standings.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
  • In the ninth inning, the Tigers went to right-handed reliever Alex Lange to protect a 6-4 advantage.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2023
  • Hamas has also tried to turn vagueness to its advantage.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Fans could see the Padres play a postseason game at Petco Park for the first time in 16 years, and the Padres wanted to maximize the home-field advantage.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In quick transient maneuvers such as the lane change, the LW2 was more likely to step out in the rear, giving the VW a nearly 6-mph advantage in that test.
    — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 15 July 2023
  • There will be advantages like that with AI; on the opposite end, there will be people who lose jobs because of it.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, some therapists say there are advantages for them, too.
    — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2024
  • That said, in China, home-field advantage can carry one far.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
  • The Bulls punt, so Wisconsin has negated Buffalo's advantage of getting the ball to start the half.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
  • China spends more than three times what India does on its military, giving its forces a significant advantage across land, sea and air.
    — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
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advantage

2 of 2 verb
  • The added size in the backcourt gave the Warriors matchup advantages all over the floor.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The Rams have had a big special teams advantage this season.
    — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Please give us an example of how that works to advantage.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • That could lead to district lines that advantage that party, observers said, as part of a process that will unfold over the next year.
    — Jimmy Vielkind, WSJ, 2 May 2021
  • Trades, then, could be devised without the goal of advantaging one team.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Away from the Now Mental time travel evolved to advantage our survival.
    — Amishi P. Jha, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2013
  • There’s irony somewhere that the ghost of Larry Scott, the stumbling, bumbling evil spirit that gave the Utes advantage a dozen years ago, comes around to haunt them now.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • Another who has some early zip that can be used to advantage here.
    — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Some may even be advantaged, if the carve-out from the IRS budget comes from the agency’s enforcement efforts; that would help the rich, who are the nation’s worst tax cheats.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • Some might argue that this war within the Republican Party shifts advantage back to the Democrats.
    — Peter Hammond Schwartz, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Their duet showed the two singers to advantage, and inspired the show’s celebrity coaches to offer some extravagant praise.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Will someone from the Emerald cell — Devin, Nany, or Kaycee — find that their season-long strategy of having the numbers advantage paid off?
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2021
  • On many fronts, Trump effectively treats these two groups as competitors in a zero-sum struggle—and then looks to advantage the gray.
    — Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The result is a coherent exhibition that not only shows the images to advantage, but the building as well.
    — William Meyers, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Since the mid-1970s the rules of the economic game have been rewritten, both globally and nationally, in ways that advantage the rich and disadvantage the rest.
    — Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
  • In one stretch James fell and slid on his back while running back on defense in the third quarter, the Clippers quickly used their numbers advantage to find Ivica Zubac all alone under the hoop for a dunk.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The Shockers defense stepped up to a force turnover on downs and the offense made sure to advantage by putting some points on the board when DeAngelo Cartagena took a reverse handoff to score the game’s first touchdown.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Its employees may thus be able to avail themselves of Connecticut laws that could advantage them in any workplace disputes.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Two-thirds say the American economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful; just 12% disagree.
    — Susan Page and Marilyn Icsman, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
  • In today’s economic climate, the game has shifted to advantage ADS developers with deep pockets who can play the long game.
    — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Children in wealthy private schools or affluent public schools should not get a head start and advantage in the new economy because their school has more money.
    — Amy Chance, sacbee, 2 July 2018
  • Gerrymandering — drawing district lines to advantage one party — is a practice that both sides across the country have engaged in over the decades.
    — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2018
  • The report says the national landscape will most likely advantage Parson.
    — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The league is advantaged by the fact that lawsuits brought by disappointed fans have historically failed.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 30 July 2019
  • Did Tiffany ever consider not giving Xander his idol and advantage back?
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Their performance showed both singers to advantage, and inspired the show’s celebrity coaches to offer some extravagant praise.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Congress should rewrite the formula to advantage schools which enroll more low-income students.
    — Preston Cooper, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • This not-far-off prospect would advantage companies with advanced software platforms—and Tesla already ranks among the highest-tech software companies in the world.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • In 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission found that the firm unfairly advantaged a small group of clients focused on day trading against those pursuing longer-term investment strategies.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • That may seem odd, but what is often left unsaid in discussions of Wisconsin maps is that the islands are not random parcels created by mapmakers to advantage Republicans at the behest of a Republican legislature.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023

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