Sentence examples for odds doing from inspiring English sources

Before they start inspecting tea leaves, or sales thereof, someone might want to high-tail it over to the men's shoe department of Saks Fifth Avenue or Barneys New York, where designer sneakers festooned with more colors, materials, studs and doodads than a Las Vegas showgirl are, against all odds, doing a remarkably brisk business.

Here's a yesterday's hero, battered beyond belief physically (and by critics who've always resented the fact that he's done what he's wanted to), a footballer considered pretty much over the hill, yet again in the face of overwhelming odds doing what he's paid for and supposed to do win the game.

But the odds don't look encouraging.

The odds don't look terrific.

The odds do not look good.

In the UK, even those odds don't exist.

After all, long odds did not stop them from courting Brian Grant and Grant Hill last summer.

The odds did not look good for Mr. Cao, but he was helped by two circumstances.

Bike riders who play against those odds do not fare well in accidents.

So what odds does she put on Indonesia consolidating its democracy and making it a success?

So the odds do appear to be stacked heavily in the Chiefs' favor.