to advantage

Idioms  

1. see show to advantage.

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Example Sentences

This novel, winner of the Booker Prize, uses a blunt, clipped style to advantage, exposing Istvan as an exemplar of both toxic masculinity and hinting at what’s required to escape it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Wolff said F1 should consider introducing a rule to prevent teams using one car to back up the field to advantage another driver, as both Racing Bulls and Williams did on Sunday.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

And Mr. Rothschild, who rose to chairman in 1976, used it to advantage.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2022

Libel law has traditionally been more favorable to plaintiffs there, even leading to “libel tourism,” where plaintiffs sue in British courts to advantage their cause.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022

I have been trying to think clearly about everything and to use all this distance to advantage.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson