turn to account
Example Sentences
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The Post Office having made book parcels profitable, may try to turn to account the conveyance of other, whether lighter or heavier, articles of trade.
From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.
They always seem to be able to go on being excited, and everything that happens to them they seem able to turn to account.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
My Brother, thinking it might turn to account encourag'd me, and put me on composing two occasional Ballads.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
Miss Greta might quite innocently have remembered and retailed enough to Mr. Ernst for him to turn to account.
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth
The love of life prevailed, and in the hope of gaining time which he might turn to account in effecting his escape, he promised to make revelations of consequence to the state.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
