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Disadvantage
"Disadvantage" in a Sentence (18 examples)
The rumor worked to his disadvantage.
The comparison between the two was to his disadvantage.
His bad health is a great disadvantage to him.
The disadvantage of excellent insulation is that it quickly leads to overheating.
Not being tall isn't a disadvantage.
Not being tall is not a serious disadvantage in life.
Being short is a disadvantage to a volleyball player.
His diligence turned out a disadvantage after all.
My sister is clumsy, which is a disadvantage to her.
The goal of this report is to examine every advantage and disadvantage of this proposal.
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The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.
One of the disadvantages of increasing intermediate stops is that, as we have pointed out already, certain prestige trains have to suffer, notably the "Cornish Riviera Express", slowed 15min to Plymouth by stops at Taunton and Exeter; the "Torbay Express", decelerated 18min by stops at Reading, Westbury, Taunton and Newton Abbot; and the "Bristolian", which adds 14min in order to allow for a Bath stop and an increased load.
My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.
I was brought hither under the disadvantage of being unknown, even by sight, to any of you.
1859-1890, John G. Palfrey, History of New England to the Revolutionary War Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage.
They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.
They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
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