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How to use disadvantage in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Disadvantage means a weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback. Example: “The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.”

Examples of disadvantage by meaning

nounA weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback.

  • The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.

nounA setback or handicap.

  • My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.

verbTo place at a disadvantage.

  • 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.2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013

More sentences with disadvantage

  • I was at a disadvantage because of believing something to be true that is not.From the entry because of
  • Firstly, that's illegal; secondly, it has serious disadvantages; thirdly, it's not necessary; and lastly, did I mention that it's illegal?From the entry lastly
  • Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.From the entry glass
  • In this situation, being excluseively Spanish-speaking may increasingly be experienced as a disadvantage by monolinguals.2018, Axel Fleisch, “Colonial legacies and linguistic repertoires in European Amazigh”, in Yolanda Aixelà Cabré, editor, In the Footsteps…. From the entry ambilingual
  • On the other hand, given the demands of mass politics, that is hardly a disadvantage.2008, Rick Shenkman, Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter. From the entry Oprahish
  • There are a lot of disadvantages to using googlegroups GG to read and post to usenet groups.2007 September 6, Mike Easter, “Help required with newsreader.”, in alt.free.newsservers (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2026. From the entry gg
  • As a disadvantage, there is no easy way to change the master password.2007, Max Hailperin, Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction, Thomson Course Technology, page 405. From the entry password wallet
  • Tunnel ram manifolds have a couple of big disadvantages for street use.2003, Lee Klancher, Monster Garage: How to Customize Damn Near Anything, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry tunnel ram
  • Seventeen-year-old Adragon finds there are some advantages and quite a few disadvantages to being a vampire.1998, Patricia Altner, Vampire Readings: An Annotated Bibliography, page 132. From the entry Adragon
  • While the advantages of echomail are obvious, there are a few disadvantages.1991, Martha E. Williams, 12th National Online Meeting: proceedings — 1991: New York, May 7-9, 1991 (Infotoday). From the entry echomail
  • Currently used methods to determine glycemia have certain disadvantages, including cost, heavy labor involvement, and storage problems.1988, H Negoro, JE Morley, MJ Rosenthal, “Utility of serum fructosamine as a measure of glycemia in young and old diabetic and…. From the entry glycemia
  • But the disadvantages of proximity to sand dunes have become apparent in the past year.1961 September, “Margam yard revisited”, in Modern Railways, page 537. From the entry wind-blown
  • The only disadvantage of timber snow fencing is its extreme vulnerability to fire.1960 January, M. Harbottle, “Maintaining Services after Heavy Snowfalls”, in Railway Magazine, page 9. From the entry vulnerability
  • A further disadvantage of the Crosti system is that it is impossible to fit a self-cleaning smokebox.1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 422. From the entry self-cleaning
  • A widow with a child was at a disadvantage with these pretty little minxes, she thought.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XVIII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC…. From the entry minx
  • One-cold encoding has the same advantages and disadvantages as one-hot.2015, Ronald W. Mehler, Digital Integrated Circuit Design Using Verilog and Systemverilog, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 410. From the entry one-cold
  • The disadvantage is that determining whether a request got lost or, because of network glitchery, got handled twice is difficult.2011, John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, UNIX For Dummies, page 238. From the entry glitchery
  • It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times. From the entry entail
  • The disadvantage of the underfired grill is the potential for flareups, which can cause a burned spot or carbonization.2009, Peter Osbaldeston, The Palm Springs Diner's Bible: A Restaurant Guide for Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert…. From the entry carbonization
  • The disadvantage of slow fillups is somewhat offset by the cost, the equivalent of $1.20 to $1.40 a gallon, Mr.2007 February 18, Jim Motavalli, “A Self-Serve Station, in Your Garage”, in New York Times. From the entry fillup
  • Both extracted if-then rules have their own advantages and disadvantages.2003, Masahiro Inuiguchi, Tetsuzo Tanino, “Two Directions toward Generalization of Rough Sets”, in Masahiro Inuiguchi, Shoji Hirano…. From the entry susceptive
  • Put differently, the active ingredients in crime seem to be structural disadvantage and attenuated collective efficacy more so than disorder.1999 11, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban…. From the entry analytically
  • This research seemed to suggest that the product's acquired taste which they had been fuelling could also be a latent disadvantage.1998, Joe Nicholas, John Price, Advanced Studies in Media, Nelson Thornes, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry acquired taste
  • I was forced to rethink my notion of disadvantagedness and to define disadvantage in more than economic terms.1993, Robert Donmoyer, Raylene Kos, At-risk Students: Portraits, Policies, Programs, and Practices, page 43. From the entry disadvantagedness
  • The principal disadvantage of climatology is that it gives only the average behavior of storms under the average conditions.1993, Richard A. Jeffries, Charles R. Sampson, Lester E. III Carr, Jan-Hwa Chu, Tropical Cyclone Forecasters Reference Guide; 5. Numerical…. From the entry aclimatological
  • A Milton Keynes is up against a long-term cost disadvantage.1975, Built environment quarterly. From the entry Milton Keynes
  • It's also true that a deer is at some disadvantage, sightwise, when the sun is high and the light strong.1969 Apr, Field & Stream. From the entry sightwise
  • No question of "advantages or disadvantages" attaches to the use of a clack-box; it is a necessary part of locomotive equipment.1946 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: Clack-Boxes”, in Railway Magazine, page 129. From the entry clack box
  • The artistic disadvantages of the method are many.1926 February 21, “Feminist furor: Three Kingdoms. By Storm Jameson. 365 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. [book review]”, in The New York…. From the entry flimsy
  • This has created a competitive disadvantage between smaller firms and larger operators with in-house capability – although all stakeholders report increased costs.”2025 August 26, “Post-Brexit licences for exporting food to EU cost UK firms up to £65m last year. Government to promise it will scrap…. From the entry NTM
  • This piece was liable to put the user in a state of disadvantage without proper precautions, but today Miss Celia had abandoned her unga-bunga playstyle.2023, Schuld (trans. Mikey N.), Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World: Volume 5, unnumbered page. From the entry unga bunga
  • However, neopronouns also come with a disadvantage: they unavoidably stand out whenever they're used because relatively few people have ever heard these words before.2018, Lee Airton, Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture…. From the entry neopronoun
  • A successful breakthru opens a "window of opportunity" to perform a variety of tactical maneuvers, many of which can leave the enemy at a disadvantage.2012, “Breakthru”, in Axis and Allies, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2012. From the entry breakthru
  • It also has disadvantages; for one thing, the lack of focus on program structure leads to lots of copy-paste programming and poorly structured programs.2010, Martin Fowler, Domain-Specific Languages, Pearson Education, →ISBN. From the entry copy-paste
  • Bidders with inferior quality, higher transport costs or additional switching costs receive a Malus which decreases their bid automatically to incorporate the disadvantages.2008, Henner Gimpel, Nicolas R. Jennings, Gregory E. Kersten, Axel Ockenfels, Christof Weinhardt, Negotiation, Auctions, and Market…. From the entry malus
  • The arts, life, and ideals of the nationality become central and paramount; ethnic and national differences change in status from disadvantages to distinctions."2007, Kristofer Allerfeldt, The Progressive Era in the USA, 1890-1921, page 143. From the entry disassimilation

Meaning of disadvantage

  1. noun A weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback.
  2. noun A setback or handicap.
  3. noun Loss; detriment; hindrance.

Full definition of disadvantage

Questions about disadvantage in a sentence

How do you use disadvantage in a sentence?
Disadvantage is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.”
What is a short sentence with disadvantage?
“The artistic disadvantages of the method are many.”
What does disadvantage mean?
Disadvantage means a weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback.

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