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Example sentences for "good advantage"

  • Tinted stock is occasionally used to good advantage as a "firm color.

  • See how many points there are at which you could use right letters to good advantage.

  • Right-out-from-the-shoulder arguments and facts may also be used to good advantage in handling competition.

  • These can be used to good advantage to recommend the purely literary attractions of the library's collection.

  • It is true that ten years ago other departments of the Humanities also held that while related libraries might to good advantage be brought under one roof, there should be no merging of their possessions.

  • Just before time for making the appropriation, comparative statistics can be used to a good advantage, especially if graphically shown with cuts.

  • Well-grown specimens are very effective as porch or lawn plants, or may be used to good advantage in mixed beds of tall-growing plants, plunging the pot or tub to the rim in the soil.

  • Flowers which are grown in the middle of the lawn have little relation to other planting, and they have no background to show them off to good advantage.

  • The soil for Corn should be rich in plant-food, and the coarser manure left from the preparation of the ground for small crops may be used to good advantage.

  • Aconitums are most effective when planted in a mixed border: the flower stalks being held well up, show the blossoms to good advantage.

  • A large lens may be used to good advantage in finding the irritating substance.

  • For this purpose the usual high school texts may be employed to good advantage.

  • The tonic cold bath (page 273), if taken with the usual precautions, can be used to good advantage in diminishing nervousness.

  • Green Mountain is reached from this point to good advantage by the westerly slope, a carriage road leading to the summit, where a hotel is located.

  • The venturesome lumbermen generally manage, however, to “put in an oar” to good advantage in steering clear of the rocks, although not always successful in guiding their frail crafts into quiet waters.

  • In the accompanying illustration we show how a surface of sod may be used to good advantage over a larger area than its real measurement represents.

  • A marker may often be combined with the roller to good advantage, as in Fig.

  • The coarser manure left from the preparation of the ground for small crops may be used to good advantage.

  • He arrived in this section of the state empty-handed but he saw the opportunities here offered and has utilized them to good advantage.

  • His practical methods and his industry were rewarded by large crops and he gave careful attention to the markets, and thus was able to dispose of his crops to good advantage.

  • Mr. Watson had come to this country as a youth without money and without friends, but he employed every moment of his time to good advantage, realizing the eternal principle that industry wins.

  • That business was subsequently sold to good advantage and Mr. Martin continued with Mr. Johnson as office manager of the Electric Feed Mill.

  • My experience here will enable me to act to good advantage in carrying on any such undertaking, and I hope to be of use in a permanent way to these people with whom I have been thrown in contact this year.

  • He is a very agreeable, quiet fellow, and works like a beaver, but like several others, is too young to take charge of the organization of the labor to good advantage.

  • At first blush one is ready to believe that the members of the little colony, in proving the free negro capable of raising cotton to good advantage, had still more completely proved him unfit for freedom.

  • It is also worked into broad panels made up of narrow, quarter-sawed strips, which exhibit the dark flecks of the wood to good advantage.

  • It is used for shipping boxes, and its light color fits it for that purpose, as the wood shows painting and stenciling to good advantage.

  • The other colleges of the university are, for the most part, doing their work efficiently and well, and as a rule their students are showing appreciation of the opportunities afforded them, and are utilizing them to good advantage.

  • It can be grown to good advantage in the Philippines, and at existing prices its production upon a commercial scale for human consumption would be profitable, but there is another good use to which it can be put.

  • After taking off the first crop it would be readily possible to plough, harrow and seed in one operation, and here, if anywhere, modern harvesters and threshers can be employed to good advantage.

  • A natural water supply such as a stream or pond in the pasture is therefore desirable, but if none is available an artificial pond or tank can be furnished to good advantage.

  • A window can be substituted for this door to good advantage as it makes the house lighter.

  • Later in the season after the harvest, both breeding and growing geese can be given the range of the stubble fields to good advantage as they will glean most of the shelled grain.

  • They paid for the sheep, were gone for a few months, sold out their flocks to good advantage, and came back to buy more.

  • I learned a lesson then that has served me since to good advantage.

  • This was a country that they could be used in to good advantage.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good advantage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    foul weather; good camp; good citizenship; good collection; good company; good confession; good fairy; good fellow; good figure; good flavor; good glass; good hands; good influence; good instance; good joke; good lack; good measure; good republican; good rider; good shepherd; good start; good teacher; good time; good usage; good word; good yeast