ADVANTAGEOUS in a Sentence

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En-vironmentalists regard these moves as the government taking advantage of the national mood to roll back protective measures.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADVANTAGEOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
advantageous
 a.  giving an advantage
 a.  appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Of course, this very stupid thing, this caprice of ours, may be in reality, gentlemen, more advantageous for us than anything else on earth, especially in certain cases.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
2  No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
3  Anna Mikhaylovna, practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself and her son.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
4  Sophie," he began, timidly at first and then more and more boldly, "if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XI
5  But the question whether the camp was advantageous or disadvantageous remained for him undecided.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
6  One of the most obvious and advantageous departures from the so-called laws of war is the action of scattered groups against men pressed together in a mass.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
7  Men who want to fight will always put themselves in the most advantageous conditions for fighting.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
8  "Speak, monsieur, speak," said d'Artagnan, who instinctively scented something advantageous.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
9  I know you to be a man of resolution; and your services, well directed, instead of leading you to ill, might be very advantageous to you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 40 A TERRIBLE VISION
10  You have told me the truth, my gentlemen," said he, addressing the Musketeers, "and it will not be my fault if our encounter this evening be not advantageous to you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT
11  It is true that the habit of a novice, which the young woman wore, was not very advantageous in a contest of this kind.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
12  Such a choice were certainly the wisest and the most advantageous, could men be content to enjoy what is their own without seeking to lord it over others.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I.
13  Aristides reporting to the Athenians that the course proposed by Themistocles was extremely advantageous but extremely dishonourable, the people utterly refused to entertain it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LIX.
14  Moreover it was costly for the king to build, and shameful for him to lose this fortress; while for Ottaviano it was glorious to take, and advantageous to destroy it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV.
15  Turning their thoughts wholly to arms, the Romans always conducted their military enterprises in the most advantageous way, both as to cost and every other circumstance of war.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXXII.
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
16  The advantage of the idea was its simplicity.
17  An even distribution has an added advantage, the institution will be better able to cope with the Unpredictable.
18  You will be at an advantage if you have thought about the interview questions in advance.
19  At first capital only gained advantage in relation to labor and may even have lost some ground to the state.
20  Subscribers to the magazine can take advantage of this special offer.
21  Only by keeping down costs will America maintain its competitive advantage over other countries.
22  En-vironmentalists regard these moves as the government taking advantage of the national mood to roll back protective measures.
23  She was a practised swindler and took advantage of the old man's confiding nature.
24  She rose to power by being a political pragmatist who took advantage of every opportunity that presented itself.
25  The treaty is to our advantage.
26  Given the existence of resource mobility in a single country, the exploitation of comparative advantage is possible.
27  The managers generally failed to take advantage of a potentially valuable resource, their immediate superiors.
28  As a boxer, his long reach gives him a significant advantage.
29  The street vendors often took advantage of the customers.
30  The system has the added advantage of recordable DVD drives.