avail of something

Examples of availed

availed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Many groups and singers availed themselves of the opportunity to reap success and wealth at the expense of the creators.
As the present investigation is based on an independent approach, we have availed ourselves of the opportunity of comparing the respective results.
It suggests that, by and large, persons of lower socioeconomic status availed themselves of the delivery facilities at this hospital.
And many later operas availed themselves of the talents of similar professional musician-protagonists.
Unfortunately, the authors have not fully availed themselves of this option.
They have no idea about ' care in the community ' and what they could be availed of.
Creatures so evolved could well have availed themselves of underlying, mathematically tractable regularities exhibited by their surroundings, regularities painstakingly exposed by the physical sciences.
They, therefore, availed themselves of every opportunity to learn the language and sought to provide similar opportunities for their own children.
Through this technology, carbon losses are considerably slowed down and soil nutrients are availed to cultivated crops for longer periods.
Few availed themselves of the yard.
Few respondents availed themselves of any caveats.
None of the women availed themselves of respite care as they felt that the family was best equipped to deal with the caring needs of its members.
None of them have availed themselves of this facility.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
This is a discretionary power, and 700 children in the former county borough availed themselves of it last year.
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