Sentence examples for Chance from inspiring English sources
"chance" is a correct and widely used word in written English
You can use it to mean an opportunity, possibility, or likelihood, as in "I'm taking a chance on this new investment." You can also use it to express a possibility or uncertain outcome, as in "There's still a chance of rain tomorrow."
verb
To happen by chance, to occur.
- It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.
"With Rick gone, and with him the chance of ever doing it again, it feels right that these revisited and reworked tracks should be made available as part of our repertoire".
He has a good chance to win here".
This book has been my chance to find out what makes other top people in sport, business and politics as successful as me.
The Queen is one of the world's biggest winners, though it has to be said, she only got the job through an accident of birth, and loads of other people might have been as good if they had been given the same chance.
What he failed to realise was that the British public are very gullible, and if you keep telling them something for long enough, there's a chance they'll believe it.
His heroism had been forgotten, but doing something like this means you give the person whose life was cut short another chance, and you acknowledge the part their life played in the next chapter of your family's story".
So her protestations of ordinariness might all seem somewhat disingenuous – though it's refreshing to hear a pop megastar acknowledge concepts such as luck and chance, rather than grimly trotting out American dream cliches and Protestant work ethic myths – were it not for her own career decisions bearing it out.
"At 30 there is no chance that she will have any of the certainties that we enjoyed but maybe my grandchildren will.
