What is "take advantage of"

Usage examples of "take advantage of".

As soon as the procession of this last Roman embassy was formed in the Forum, its numbers were almost immediately swelled, in spite of opposition, by those among the mass of the people who were still able to move their languid and diseased bodies, and who, in the extremity of their misery, had determined at all hazards to take advantage of the opening of the gates, and fly from the city of pestilence in which they were immured, careless whether they perished on the swords of the Goths or languished unaided on the open plains.

Possibly he thought that I might take advantage of his helplessness and slay him.

So let's take advantage of all the time we've got to get everything straightened up before he comes back.

I'm also aware of the imminent need to take advantage of this opportunity.

Of course, I know you are quite entitled to take advantage of that.

It is a proof of weakness which masses of people at once perceive, and never fail to take advantage of.

Eon, for his part, was even more rigid in refusing to do anything which he thought might take advantage of that dependence.

The many-ranked phalanxes of Hellenic warriors had been designed to take advantage of the great reach of their long spears and pikes.

But her own foul mouth and ill temper seemed focused, for the most part, on seeing to it that her husband did not take advantage of his position to molest the kitchen slaves.

He and his brothers would take advantage of the moment to see Gerry off quietly to go find their father.

It is our purpose to take advantage of this interval of inaction, and direct the reader's attention to a different country from that selected as the scene of our romance, and to such historical events of past years as connect themselves remarkably with the early life of Numerian's perfidious convert.

Occurrences to be hereafter related render it necessary to take advantage of this interval to inform the reader of the real nature and use of the vault in the temple wall, the external appearance of which we have already described.