How to Use disadvantage in a Sentence

disadvantage

1 of 2 noun

• There are advantages and disadvantages to the new system.
• She had the disadvantage of growing up in a poor community.
• They argued that the new regulations would place their company at a competitive disadvantage in the marketplace.
• Residents of the states harmed by the new rules are at a disadvantage for each of these.
  — Malena Carollo and Ben Tanen, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
• These are some of the disadvantages of going with a used car.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 13 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, the Leopard 1A5 has clear disadvantages.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• And this year’s shower has the disadvantage of taking place when the moon is full.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 4 May 2023
• The Jazz will have 10 games with a rest advantage, and 10 games with a rest disadvantage.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• Cities will always be at a disadvantage in these types of fights.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2023
• Among the disadvantages is the fact that assets placed in the bypass trust don’t get a step-up in tax basis when the surviving spouse dies.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2023
• But kids have advantages and disadvantages when they’re born, all of them.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 21 June 2023
• The disadvantage of being the child of a famous man: all of her Papaji’s henchmen feared him.
  — Karan Mahajan, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• This is an area where musicians that are new to the industry are at a disadvantage.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of a velvet couch?
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 9 June 2023
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of an ice cream maker?
  — Laura Denby, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
• The new system also puts migrants who do not own a cell phone, or who have lost their phone along the journey, at an extreme disadvantage.
  — Lillian Perlmutter, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
• There’s a recipe to success.’’ Where others dwell on the disadvantages of Vaughn’s stature, he’s learned to recognize and embrace the advantages.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Despite the disadvantage, Dallas managed to respond in the 73rd minute.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023
• What are the disadvantages of rechargeable hand warmers?
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2023
• French farmers say such bans put them at an unfair disadvantage.
  — Sylvie Corbet, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024
• This is one area where double strollers are often at a distinct disadvantage to single strollers.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 25 July 2023
• But the lack of such weaponry is putting Ukraine at a serious disadvantage, Zelensky said.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Laris Karklis, Samuel Granados, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
• Add in that California has the highest living and labor costs of these other states and the disadvantage becomes clear.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• After testing, the only disadvantage is the smaller 6-quart size.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023
• The 6-9 Adebayo - at a six-inch height disadvantage against the rookie phenom - sometimes fronted Wembanyama and did a good job keeping him in check.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• Investors can also put competing buyers at a disadvantage and push them out of the market, Obringer said.
  — Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023
• That bodes poorly for the Devils, as goaltending was their biggest disadvantage in the series.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
• The already short-handed Dawgs were at a huge disadvantage without its key frontcourt players.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2023
• Moore did get a little too cute for me at times Sunday, but there’s no denying that playing with pace, in particular, seemed to put the Dolphins at a disadvantage.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Hit Show got stuck with the dreaded No. 1 post, which is considered a disadvantage because there’s often nowhere to go to avoid traffic problems except either straight to the lead or way back in the pack.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023

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disadvantage

2 of 2 verb

• Of those that did, women were disadvantaged in some way almost two-thirds of the time.
  — Lucy Perez, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
• First, what is the evidence that blacks are disadvantaged in the workplace?
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• Any of these attributes game the health care system in favor of the seller and disadvantage the consumer.
  — James Breiding, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
• There’s only one problem: The disadvantaged don’t always want that kind of help.
  — Bobby Jindal, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2019
• The union’s members, who have been on strike since July 14, argue they have been disadvantaged by the economics of the streaming era.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Some also said the bill would disadvantage rural students and those for whom English is a second language.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2022
• The recent layoffs even disadvantage current H-1B workers who escaped the cuts, and those who manage to secure new visas.
  — WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
• Economic and infrastructure growth has been on the back of a land grab that has disadvantaged rural farmers.
  — Sophal Ear, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
• Those who act with intention and the conscious desire to disadvantage people of color.
  — Ann Latham, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• Strokes gained off the tee measures the advantage (or disadvantage) a player has exclusively from his performance on par 4s and par 5s off the tee.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
• The learning center, based in South Africa, educates disadvantaged children on art and other life skills.
  — Callum Sutherland, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• The Chemours lawsuit also contends that the terms of the 2015 spin-off by DuPont actually disadvantaged the new firm in favor of its parent company.
  — NBC News, 1 Mar. 2020
• Houston schools that are already disadvantaged based on scarcity are further punished for problems arising from that scarcity, while more affluent schools down the road are some of the best in the state.
  — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2023
• The model could also disadvantage employees on teams that are mostly in the office, or mostly remote, or people who want to keep different hours from the rest of their team.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
• The leaders of both unions argue that the rise of streaming has economically disadvantaged their members.
  — Chloe Melas, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2023
• McMichael said the new rules disadvantage patients in areas already struggling to provide high quality health care.
  — al, 8 June 2021
• In the advanced economies, this disadvantaged less skilled workers, reduced the power of workers and labor unions, and increased inequality.
  — Barry Eichengreen, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
• In addition, bias in home appraisals can also disadvantage Black home buyers and home owners.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• The effort is part of a new push to close problem sites that have posed health risks to communities across the state, oftentimes disadvantaged neighborhoods in close proximity to oil drill sites.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• But making social interactions a part of the process can disadvantage people of color and women, Chatman says.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2020
• Buyers or sellers represented by an agent in the latter camp would then also be disadvantaged.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The patchwork of state laws that begins on July 1 will disadvantage student-athletes in some states and create an unworkable system for others.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2021
• Stuck at home, investors were less likely to seek out founders beyond their immediate web, a trend that tended to disadvantage founders who are female and/or people of color.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2021
• Our priority focus has been to ensure no student is disadvantaged as a result of Covid-19.
  — Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2020
• The lawsuit alleges that was done on purpose to disadvantage the Democratic minority voting members of the board, Young and Bronstein.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
• The major contenders all drew satisfactory posts Wednesday for the once-around, mile-and-an-eighth stakes, a distance which can severely disadvantage horses in stalls toward the outside of the starting gate.
  — Tom Jicha, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Should inefficient firms with bad products that disadvantage tens of millions of consumers be protected in order to save hundreds of thousands of jobs?
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• That was the start of a career, as well as volunteer work, spent helping and representing workers and disadvantaged people such immigrants and refugees, Simon said.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
• Others don’t deny that boosting in rich countries might disadvantage the rest of the world, but say that, scientifically speaking, a third dose is likely to help shore up the immune system.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2021
• But the Grammys still faced criticism that its voting practices disadvantage Black artists, especially in hip-hop & R&B.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024