How to Use advance on in a Sentence

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• Soler tried to advance on Wade’s grounder to shortstop but was thrown out at third by Rojas.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
• His 20th-floor home offers a birds-eye view of the Russian advance on the city.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2022
• Wolf said they are booked at least two to three weeks in advance on weekends.
  — Meg Oliver, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Though Juster said be believed there is still more work to do to advance on the trade front ahead of the state visit.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 22 June 2023
• Tickets can be purchased in advance on Eventbrite or at the door for $20.
  — Maria Morales, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
• Sign up in advance on Eventbrite for direct watch links.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• In past seasons the team draft was held in advance on television.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2023
• One goal would have been enough to advance on goal difference.
  — Gerald Imray, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• When Aaron got an advance on a book contract, the money went with him on his yearly trip to the island.
  — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
• Reservations can be made up to 90 days in advance on a rolling basis.
  — Alison Osius, Outside Online, 18 Jan. 2023
• Democrats are raising alarms that Vladimir Putin could advance on Kyiv while Congress dithers.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
• Others involve the grind of poverty—a card declined in a store, a plea for an advance on pay from the boss at the photo studio.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 July 2023
• But a Juninho goal in the 54th minute, his only score of the season, allowed the Galaxy to advance on the away-goal tiebreaker.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• Payday loans, a short-term advance on the promise of repayment at the next paycheck, have been around since the early 1900s.
  — Craig Harris, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2022
• Times are posted way in advance on Disney World’s website, so guests can plan ahead.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
• The Unseen make their advance on taking over the magical realm and destroying the Charmed.
  — Hau Chu, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• Peak-season sites are only available by booking a week in advance on Recreation.gov, but in the winter, Camp 4 is first-come, first-served.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
• Councilman Ryan Dorsey announced a boycott of the event in advance on Twitter.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2022
• There was also a learning moment: On Friday, he was cut down at third trying to advance on a ground ball to shortstop.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2023
• Russian forces are seemingly struggling to advance on every front as the war in Ukraine enters its fourth week.
  — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2022
• That morning, train service was suspended from Slavyansk after an attack on the railway somewhere to the north and the Russian advance on the city of Barvinkove, 25 miles to the east.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
• Tickets for the zoo are $29.95 for adults, and visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance on the zoo’s website.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2023
• Sievierodonetsk has for weeks been the focal point of the war, after Russia switched its aim from its unsuccessful advance on Kyiv to making gains in the east of the country.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 24 June 2022
• Some are sappers who advance on their bellies to find and disable enemy mines.
  — Missy Ryan, Isabelle Khurshudyan and Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• To make sense of this information, a workforce must be trained in advance on these technologies and systems and be ready to deploy.
  — Susan Arnold, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
• The Russian currency was one of only a few emerging-market peers to advance on Thursday.
  — Bloomberg.com, 27 Jan. 2022
• That resulted in the district's seeking a two-month advance on tax collections.
  — Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 4 Dec. 2023
• Among Putin’s henchmen, Zolotov’s background stands in sharp contrast to that of Prigozhin, the brash mutineer who ordered his men to advance on Moscow over the weekend.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 27 June 2023
• The schools also could receive an advance on future payments to boost the total to more than $40 million in the first several years of their Big Ten membership.
  — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
• This week, the two volunteers were guarding a position observing the road that the Russians might take to advance on the village of Novopil in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2022

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024