VERB
-
find unexpectedly
the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb
The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake
she struck a goldmine
How To Use chance on In A Sentence
- This is the type of signing that exemplifies the best of free agency: a player who didn't mesh with one system receiving a chance on a team that is a better fit.
- Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times. The Sun
- You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
- Advance booking is always advisable but you can of course always take a chance on the day itself.
- In 1924, Simon and Schuster took a chance on publishing a book devoted to crosswords, and the crossword craze started.
- When I came back from injury earlier this season, the gaffer took a chance on me and played me up front against Dundee United.
- Go ahead with the tournament and take a chance on the checks being cashable when the banks open.
- That's the situation with live sports: you get one chance and one chance only.
- If per chance one of your birds becomes spraddle-legged, fasten a soft cord to one leg at the ankle.
- The four Corners of the Table must be furnished with _four Holes_, and exactly in the middle of each side _one Hole_, and these Holes must be hung at the bottoms with _Nets_, Which Holes are named _Hazards_, because if either by Skill or Chance one Gamester strikes anothers Ball into these Holes, or Hazards, as we will now call them, he wins One; the The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing