How To Use To advantage In A Sentence
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You can use this haze to advantage, but if it is obscuring your subject, you may need to place a filter over your SLR lens.
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The picture may be seen to advantage against a plain wall.
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The situation, we conceive, is one which, if for a moment good sense and good feeling could come into play between the contending parties, might be turned to advantage.
America--North and South
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The photograph showed him to advantage.
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Perhaps the tourist sector could turn adversity into advantage by launching official flood tours of York.
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Her long neck and strong pointed chin were shown to advantage by the gesture.
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Hang the picture somewhere where it will show up to advantage.
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She wore what was for her fairly dowdy garb: a low-cut figure-hugging black gown that showed up her deep red hair to advantage.
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He turns a daunting running time to advantage, crafting each episode into a romantic cliffhanger.
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The picture may be seen to advantage against a plain wall.
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One general set of ideas will be expressly forbidden - that of deceit intended to advantage some at the expense of others.
The Making of Neoclassical Economics
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He turns a daunting running time to advantage, crafting each episode into a romantic cliffhanger.
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But such spots can be used to advantage in mild climates, where the extra chill encourages lilacs to bloom and apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, and pears to set fruit.
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We must turn our knowledge to advantage.
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Numerous altars, pedestals, and fine specimens of sculpture in marble and peperino, have been disinterred in this spot, and they are now arranged to advantage at the foot of the huge pile fronting the road.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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That anyone would hide a feature which showed them to advantage disturbed me — ironic, given I'm a hider — and I asked why she didn't wear it down.
Lillia
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The question now, therefore, is whether this can be turned to advantage by strengthening the bill in committee, or whether it will simply be used to change the bill opportunistically in order to inflict defeats on the government.
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We must turn these machines to advantage.
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Its ambition is at once museological, architectural and urban, since it involves enlarging and modernising the Louvre Museum and the Decorative Arts Museum, setting off the palace to advantage and opening up the whole towards the city.
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We must turn our knowledge to advantage.
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The picture may be seen to advantage against a plain wall.
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The photograph showed him to advantage.
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A very dense negative, for instance, may be reduced either with the ferricyanide of potash or persulphate of ammonia reducer; and a thin negative with proper graduations can frequently be intensified to advantage in the print.
Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements
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But not all his skill and labour, in disposing to advantage the little furniture which remained, could remove the dark and disconsolate appearance of those ancient and disfurnished walls.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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While there were many new tools available, most people reverted to old processes using new tools rather than changing the process to leverage new tools to advantage.
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The jeweler's display showed the diamonds to advantage.
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It is perhaps to be regretted that this work, which contains many fine details, should have been played for the first time in the Salle de Redoute, so "redoutable" and ungrateful a room for the piano in general; in a less vast space, such as the salle of the Musik - Verein, the virtuoso and the work would assuredly have been heard more to advantage, and if I did not fear to appear indiscreet I should ask Mr. de Hardegg to play it a second time, in a concert room of moderate size.
Letters
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The attitude certainly showed the svelte perfection of her form to advantage; and from the unavoidable circumstances of the position, it also showed one of the most beautifully formed feet that ever was seen, together with the whole of the exquisite little bottine that clothed it, a beautifully turned ankle, and perhaps as much as two inches of the silk stocking above the boot.
A Siren
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Madoc succeeds in interrupting the "irreverent work" of their "polluted hands" and, turning the situation to advantage, forces the Catholic ministers to repackage
The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
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Or, reading autois, and referring the word to the Persians: 'who, looking to advantage, forwarded the course of the invader.'
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The close texture and mild flavour of lean, minced veal makes it a valuable ingredient in many pâtés, galantines, and stuffings, besides showing to advantage in such dishes as veal loaf.
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It turns out that the gradient in oxygen, declining to zero in the sulfurous sediments beneath the surface, is an electric gradient as well, and that the worms use this to advantage in producing metabolic fuel.
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He has joined to a fine genius all that can set him off and show him to advantage.
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The central dome is some fifty feet in height, and passing to the right the guide seats the party in such a position that the frost work on the wall can be seen to advantage.
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A very dense negative, for instance, may be reduced either with the ferricyanide of potash or persulphate of ammonia reducer; and a thin negative with proper graduations can frequently be intensified to advantage in the print.
Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements
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The living amphibians have turned the limitations of the aqueous connection to advantage.
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His blue coat of Bath superfine fitted him superbly, displaying his shoulders to advantage, drawing attention to his narrow hips.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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He had studied to advantage the Elizabethan and Jacobean masters of the string fantasy.
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But Ms Cooper turned adversity into advantage by making an endearing apology.
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What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.
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The jeweler's display showed the diamonds to advantage.
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Large amounts of nitrogen are gathered by leguminous crops; cowpeas, vetch, beggarweed, velvet beans, alfalfa and others may be planted to advantage, resulting in a great saving in fertilizer bills, and besides, adding the necessary vegetable matter and humus.
The Pecan and its Culture
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Wedgwood did not suddenly create and start selling his "basaltes" ware simply because it showed off white hands to advantage.
"Selling was an intellectual pleasure, an art form" for Josiah Wedgwood.
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Therefore Mr. Flint duteously appeared at intervals among the elect, and appeared even to advantage.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
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Colours are bright and vibrant and show off the scenery to advantage.
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This is a great question upon which the solution of many others depends, and for the examination of it, the hour of the comminatory decree of arrest, and that of the real decree may be remarked to advantage.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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The Northrop/MDC YF-23 employed planform shaping with extensive blending, the latter technique used to advantage with the large B-2A.
Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit
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the dress brought out her figure to advantage
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The plain vase shows off the flowers to advantage.
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Very attractive blue - green colour with variegated yellow intrusions, it is capable of taking a high polish showing to advantage the variety of grain and colour tones.
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Juan Carlos Rivera and his vihuela are shown to advantage in an extract from the Mass ‘Quam pulchri sunt’.
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However, the institutional structure of copyright societies has historically led to advantageously structured royalty terms.
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Cash - rich Chinese companies are on a buying spree again, hoping to advantage of low asset prices.
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Numerous charts, tables and figures are used to advantage throughout the book.
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We must turn our knowledge to advantage.
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The black velvet dress sets off your diamond brooch to advantage.
