How to Use advantage in a Sentence

advantage

1 of 2 noun
  • 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.
  • Give them the advantage in this source off.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Matt had the first mover advantage.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
  • What are the advantages of that?
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That’s an advantage for our rush.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Use this truth to your advantage.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
  • But there are clear advantages.
    — Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The Knicks will not have home-court advantage.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • If there's an advantage to be found, the Dodgers have found it.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • All guests have to do is present their keycard to take advantage.
    — Andrew Sessa, Robb Report, 2 July 2026
  • The gap between them is where the durable advantage will live.
    — Abe Ankumah, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Calais is someone smart on the field; that’s a good advantage.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Marchenko then recorded the hat trick on a two-man advantage.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • There are advantages to both, and your play style should be factored in as well.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Many indie artists don’t use it to their advantage.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Take advantage of the good vibes floating through your workspaces.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The Padres hold a health advantage.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Arizona has the home field advantage, but that hasn’t helped them out for the past two games.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • And who has the new dagger advantage?
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But for now, many are taking advantage.
    — Carmen Sesin, NBC news, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Keller took advantage and scored after two of the gaffes and the third killed a drive in the end zone.
    — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025

advantage

2 of 2 verb
  • Plano West had the numbers advantage just a few feet from the goal.
    — Ishmael Johnson, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Another who has some early zip that can be used to advantage here.
    — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Trades, then, could be devised without the goal of advantaging one team.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Perreault scored with the man advantage less than three minutes later.
    — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Perreault scored with the man advantage less than three minutes later.
    — ABC News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Trump has probably advantaged China in the long run in hard and soft power.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Away from the Now Mental time travel evolved to advantage our survival.
    — Amishi P. Jha, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2013
  • Their duet showed the two singers to advantage, and inspired the show’s celebrity coaches to offer some extravagant praise.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Instead, people twist the definition of merit to advantage their own group.
    — Kenji Yoshino, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Well, there are very few companies that have ever been similarly advantaged.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The stakes are much too high for blue states to go beyond what the law requires while more red states use current law to advantage Republicans.
    — Marc Lampe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Congress should rewrite the formula to advantage schools which enroll more low-income students.
    — Preston Cooper, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The report says the national landscape will most likely advantage Parson.
    — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Voters out in Virginia are set to make this decision about redrawing districts in a way that would advantage Democrats.
    — CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Their performance showed both singers to advantage, and inspired the show’s celebrity coaches to offer some extravagant praise.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • This is gonna be a continent-by-continent game and some businesses are gonna be advantaged on one continent versus another.
    — Matthew Belloni, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 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
  • Majority groups that have been unfairly advantaged for too long see any even minute reduction in that unfair advantage as an all-out attack.
    — David Yang and Nimit Maru, Recode, 21 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The challenges are enormous, the hurdles daunting, the giants advantaged—but that’s what makes the opportunity so electric.
    — Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The deal does not specifically advantage Paris any more than any other capital of any other country that pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • The plans are considered tax-advantaged because withdrawals are tax-free, but the money invested into them isn’t tax deductible on your federal returns.
    — Aimee Picchi, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2018

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