show to advantage
Example Sentences
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On this occasion, however, it unluckily did not show to advantage.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2011
If he does not show to advantage in a new role he may shelve it for a while, as he seems to be doing with Manrico in Il Trovatore.
From Time Magazine Archive
In no other part of cookery does the skill of the cook show to advantage as in the way in which the various sauces are prepared and served.
From Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Wilson, Mary A.
Samuel does not show to advantage in either of the two things mentioned about him here.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander
Fourteenthly.—Stars and pretty women at a ball don't show to advantage by daylight.
From Happy-Thought Hall by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
