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How to use vantage in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Vantage means an advantage. Example: “From this vantage point we can observe the behavior of the animals in their natural habitat.”

Examples of vantage by meaning

nounA place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.

  • From this point of vantage, we were able to gain an impression of the massive outlines of the main structure, and its intricate maze of girders.1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149

More sentences with vantage

  • From this vantage point we can observe the behavior of the animals in their natural habitat.From the entry observe
  • The hill provided the troops an excellent vantage point to scout for the enemy.From the entry vantage point
  • The vistaed mountains afforded many vantage points for photographing the lake.From the entry vistaed
  • It may be difficult for us to understand the motivations of these people from our 21st century vantage point.From the entry vantage point
  • The duality of information technology—its capacity to automate and to informate—provides a vantage point from which to consider these choices.1988, Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine, New York: Basic Books, page 390. From the entry informate
  • The Albert Einstein Spacearium is a rare vantage point for viewing some of our galaxy with startling Clarity.1981, National Air and Space Museum, The National Air and Space Museum, page 85. From the entry spacearium
  • From my vantage point in this teeming city it appears that Father—feeling, I suspect, that it was ordained—accepts Mr.1966, George Backer, Appearance of a Man, Random House, page 93. From the entry polloi
  • For nothing is easier than to make one naïfly formed Morality the vantage point from which others are criticised.1943, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, page 66. From the entry naïfly
  • Originally, all telpher lines consisted of an elevated road, formed of a wire cable, on which vantages electrically propelled cars ran.1905, Edwin James Houston, Electricity in Every-day Life. From the entry telpher line
  • It is our distinctive vantage that binds us to the world and sets the necessary limitations that are required to make sense of it.2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 8, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN. From the entry Archimedean point
  • In previous chapters, I have tried to throw light on ritual violence from the vantage points of political history, mourning, and vowmaking.1996, Kenneth M. George, Showing Signs of Violence, page 137. From the entry vowmaking
  • Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The egotist considers”, in This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC…. From the entry jostle
  • The Weltansicht of this poem is a distinct vantage for an appreciation of the scientific man's attitude toward the specific question of immortality.1905, The Bookman, volume 21, page 521. From the entry Weltansicht
  • A minute or so from here, there is a vantage point with fine views to the western harbour, Lamma, and a nearby, slightly lower peak, High West.2020 January 21, Martin Williams, “It’s a great time to explore Hong Kong with protests keeping tourists away, so put your hiking shoes on…. From the entry High West
  • From this vantage point, it was the personality flaw, rather than the negative self-view, that caused people with negative self-views to embrace negative evaluations and evaluators.2013, Joanne V. Wood, Abraham Tesser, John G. Holmes, The Self and Social Relationships, page 57. From the entry self-view
  • From my vantage point in one of four bleacher sections, the dancers tearing across the larger stage in the distance evoked images of brightly plumaged birds.2008 May 20, Claudia La Rocco, “Aloft and Close to Nature, Fine-Feathered Birds in Constant Flux”, in New York Times. From the entry plumaged
  • Armed with binoculars and wearing a bucket hat covered with antiban buttons — “Keep fighting, Keep hunting,” read one — she knew the best vantage points.2007 January 13, Joshua Robinson, “The Changing Times Take the Fox Out of the Fox Hunt”, in New York Times. From the entry antiban
  • Our vantage point provides incredible views of the Orinocan jungle stretching out to the horizon, a vast carpet of green life that some describe as the earths' verdant lungs.2003, Tim O'Neill, “The Tree of Life”, in The American Alpine Journal: 2003, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry Orinocan
  • A curved line of liquor stores, supermarkets and quaintish gift shops was all one could see from the vantage point of the ceaseless procession of cars.1967, Emily Hahn, Romantic Rebels: An Informal History of Bohemianism in America. From the entry quaintish

Meaning of vantage

  1. noun An advantage.
  2. noun A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
  3. noun A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.

Full definition of vantage

Questions about vantage in a sentence

How do you use vantage in a sentence?
Vantage is used as a noun and verb. For example: “From this vantage point we can observe the behavior of the animals in their natural habitat.”
What is a short sentence with vantage?
“The vistaed mountains afforded many vantage points for photographing the lake.”
What does vantage mean?
Vantage means an advantage.

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