avail oneself of
Idioms-
Take advantage of, benefit by. For example, To get a better mortgage, he availed himself of the employee credit union . [Late 1500s]
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Use, employ, as in I'll avail myself of the first cab to come along . [Mid-1800s]
Example Sentences
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The former, which many of our parents, grandparents or great-grandparents, experienced is the reality of leaving one's country of birth to go to a land where greater opportunities exist and, in order to avail oneself of those opportunities, learning the dominant language, abiding by the laws and, in public anyway, adhering to the cultural norms and customs.
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With regard to them, one might be inclined to avail oneself of the qualification attached to the Highgate oath.
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Odds of weapons, when there is courage to avail oneself of them, forms a thorough counterbalance to odds of number.
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Or, to put it into other words, and avail oneself of an illustration, we know the old story of the queen who, for the love of an unworthy human heart, dissolved pearls in the cup and gave them to him to drink.
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The responsibility to avail oneself of this spiritual resource is inseparable from the gift of faith itself.
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