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perchance

[ UK /pˈɜːt‍ʃɑːns/ ]
[ US /pɝˈtʃæns/ ]
ADVERB
  1. by chance
    we may possibly run into them at the concert
    it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time
    perhaps she will call tomorrow
  2. through chance
    To sleep, perchance to dream...

How To Use perchance In A Sentence

  • The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • Behold the mountain rillet, become a brook, become a torrent, how it inarms a handsome boulder: yet if the stone will not go with it, on it hurries, pursuing self in extension, down to where perchance a dam has been raised of a sufficient depth to enfold and keep it from inordinate restlessness. The Egoist
  • In such cases the hunters may become the hunted, and may perchance be 'strafed' themselves. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
  • In like manner the commander of Fort Casimir, when he found his martial spirit waxing too hot within him, would sally forth into the fields and lay about him most lustily with his sabre; decapitating cabbages by platoons; hewing down lofty sunflowers, which he termed gigantic Swedes; and if, perchance, he espied a colony of big-bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun, "Ah! caitiff Yankees!" would he roar, "have I caught ye at last? Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
  • Or, perchance, mystery and importance have been found, during his long and varied experience with the unsophisticated tourist, excellent things to increase the volume of importance attached to the exhibited articles, and the volume of "pice" in his exchequer. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
  • Perchance he/she (I really felt it was a smarmy male.) didn't know 'ironical' was a real word in much the same way folks confuse the "irregardlessness" of it all? No, i have time
  • I will go out on a limb and suggest a certain melancholic mood perchance? Rebecca Reminds - They're Perfectly Normal
  • He may perchance find a few of the curved Omani daggers with handsome sheaths adorned with filigree silver, to which is usually attached, by a leather thong, a thorn extractor, an earpick, and a spike. Southern Arabia
  • One day perchance I shall tell you.
  • Could it perchance be that we aren't producing the right stuff, because we don't have enough of a rugby culture, because an embarrassingly small number of new recruits has been attracted by successive ‘strategies’ laid out by the blazers?
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