How to use "advantage" in a sentence

Jean Valjean, who knew the mayor's background, reported him to the police and took advantage of his arrest to take over half a million francs from his Paris bank

But now, if she started making nasty accusations after he'd been so pleasant to her, she would seem to be a hysterical harpy, and if she still had any advantage left, she would quickly lose it.

Hundreds of cars progressed sluggishly through the busy street, taxicabs darting in and out, recklessly seeking any small advantage

And there's another advantage in doing it this weekend

If seeing the remains would put an end to these bloodcurdling nightmares, she would gain an advantage from the grim experience.

The big man had been overconfident, certain that his six-inch advantage in height and his extra eighty pounds of muscle made him unbeatable

But wherever there's a great deal of personal freedom, there's also an element that takes more than fair advantage of the liberal legal structure

Bruckster took advantage of the pause to tap his quarry on the shoulder.

Perhaps the lateness of the hour and the fading light would work against them, but approaching in the night might actually be to their advantage

Where were they getting their strength, their nerve, their endurance? It seemed as if they must have some advantage of which Alexander was not aware

They had to have some advantage he didn't know about

Do you see the advantage of all this?"

but to what? The commissaire would have known what to do with such an advantage; I did not

It seems to me that they have lost a great advantage in the failure of their first surprise