Use "chance" in a sentence

1. chanced upon you out on that moonlit field in Normandy – although

2. chanced upon the chambre d’hote from heaven whilst

3. While sitting in an elegant chair and gazing about at the beautiful surroundings, he chanced to hear a discussion concerning the best way of getting his eyes before he should die

4. Think of the unfortunate Tireseas, who only chanced to see her

5. Liulfr had chanced to walk by on his way to the Quartermaster when he noticed a somewhat troubled Penelope sneaking strangely around the officer’s tent

6. I chanced a quick look at Joss and his captor

7. As I drove us to our destination, I chanced the question

8. Thankfully this dear friend of mine chanced upon a medium who revealed to her that the daughter was actually an ‘old soul’ who incarnated to teach her the meaning of unconditional love

9. Suddenly, I chanced upon a set of oracle cards quite similar to what I was exposed to earlier! Without much hesitation, I found myself at the cashier, purchasing my very first stack of oracle cards

10. It chanced that one of these trips to the

11. As two of his party gathered some ferns, Brokin chanced a quick look

12. When they stopped, he chanced a quick look around the taproot

13. Later, in moving toward places of forage, they chanced to pass that awful thing which they’d purposefully avoided earlier

14. She felt his movement and chanced a fear-filled peek

15. His quick sidelong glance at her reminded her that she shouldn’t have chanced asking

16. He chanced a quick glance at her as they neared the small group of trees

17. you saw her likeness, and because she mourned for her son, you began to comfort her, and of these things which have chanced, these

18. 49 And see you saw her likeness and because she mourned for her son you began to comfort her and of these things which have chanced these are to be opened to you

19. Moshe chanced looking up again, as his mind raced, Think! Think in a new way, like the life of

20. actually chanced a slight wink at me as he followed the family, and with a tinkle of

21. Jarek had planned to climb the escarpment, cross the swamps and return to the sea-level forests in one day, but when they chanced on a clear, sandy-bottomed lake surrounded by sedges and paper barks, they couldn’t resist a swim

22. Jesus conducted the services in this new synagogue more than half the time this year, and some of the caravan people who chanced to attend remembered him as the carpenter from Nazareth

23. 6 Although this perfect life which he lived in the likeness of mortal flesh may not have received the unqualified and universal approval of his fellow mortals, those who chanced to be his contemporaries on earth, still, the life which Jesus of Nazareth lived in the flesh and on Urantia did receive full and unqualified acceptance by the Universal Father as constituting at one and the same time, and in one and the same personality-life, the fullness of the revelation of the eternal God to mortal man and the presentation of perfected human personality to the satisfaction of the Infinite Creator

24. After talking with James and Jude (who also chanced to be in Capernaum) and after turning over to his brother James the little house which John Zebedee had managed to buy, Jesus went on to Nazareth

25. Convinced that the young men had made trekking elsewhere, I chanced to follow, when, from some unknown source, a very deliberate wind raced past me and closed the door, stopping me dead in my tracks

26. Adrian was surfing his newfound writers community for some good fiction to read when he chanced upon the work of a fellow named Lucas Slaughter

27. Nothing ever seemed so important to Jesus as the individual human who chanced to be in his immediate presence

28. At her wits end by then, she chanced to see the coverage about the proposed Shanti Sadan in Andhra Prabha

29. Now it chanced that, at about the time Jesus stood over this sick woman, holding her hand, smoothing her brow, and speaking words of comfort and encouragement, the fever left her

30. 3 Late on the afternoon of the third day at Iron, as Jesus was returning from the mines, he chanced to pass through a narrow side street on his way to his lodging place

31. 1 Jesus did very little public work on this preaching tour, but he conducted many evening classes with the believers in most of the cities and villages where he chanced to sojourn with James and John

32. But soon a stormy phase of his trouble appeared, and he fled to the tombs, where he moaned, cried out aloud, and so conducted himself as to terrorize all who chanced to meet him

33. 'When I chanced to capture these seven hill-men, I reported their capture to the wazam, as is the custom, and then, before I could hang them, there came an order to hold them and communicate with their chief

34. 1 Early Monday morning, Rodan began a series of ten addresses to Nathaniel, Thomas, and a group of some two dozen believers who chanced to be at Magadan

35. All four serpents were swaying and striking at foot, ankle, calf, knee, thigh, hip, whatever portion of her voluptuous body chanced to be nearest to them, and she could not spring over them or pass between them to safety

36. 2 For years it had been the custom for these three to drop everything and listen to Jesus' teaching whenever he chanced to visit them

37. He had resolved that he would see what sort of a man Jesus was the next time he chanced to visit Jericho; accordingly, Zaccheus sought to press through the crowd, but it was too great, and being short of stature, he could not see over their heads

38. Had those rotten flags simply chanced to give way beneath his weight, or was there a more sinister explanation? One thing at least was obvious: he was not the only living thing in that palace

39. 'Set! Tell me what has chanced in the world

40. After more than an hour of this isolation, the gate-keeper and her sister chanced to meet him, and both of them again teasingly charged him with being a follower of Jesus

41. As he moved forward, he chanced to look to the east and froze

42. he chanced to meet her again riding

43. I chanced to ask her

44. Fascinated as I was by the fact that someone’s mailbox had just apparently ‘gone postal’ on me, I chanced a quick look around to see if there was a clue to what had happened somewhere in my surroundings

45. More abandoned colonies and out posts like the one the Enterprise chanced upon

46. them some sort of protection if they chanced upon the clowns again

47. ‘At Madras, last year, Malhotra and I chanced to play against a team from the Gymkhana Club

48. On his way back from the nearby sabzi mandi, remembering Roopa’s indent for matchboxes as well, he stopped at a pan shop and chanced to read the headline of the Eenadu on sale there

49. But then sexual liking, with or without love, too could hold on its own; I used to see a ravishing woman in the bus stop, and once we chanced to stand together in a jam-packed city bus; as I tentatively pressed myself against her back, she deliberately pushed herself closer to me; and seemingly unconcerned of each other, we let our declivities rub against each other until male biology brought our delight to a close

50. “What a good turn one of them gave to my life; I was so put off with that metro jaunt that it was quite a while before I ventured into a brothel, where I chanced upon an angelic whore, who later became my Good Samaritan

51. Oh, what a sexy dame she was, possibly the sexiest I had ever seen and the one I most wanted to have in all my life; as my passion for her namesake was ever on the raise, my Rathi said she wasn’t losing sleep as her rival’s hairy legs were sure to leave me cold that was if push comes to shove; but as I chanced to divine the dame’s satin legs, Rathi said she was only jesting to pour water over my raging ardency in those summer times

52. Timonus chanced a glimpse upward and saw the back of the Gigantes leader standing just a hair's breadth away from them, the ram horns on either side of his head spiraling up towards the heavens

53. sudden, he chanced into Ye Manqing’s alluring apricot eyes that were filled with

54. Kenny lifted his butt off the seat and chanced a glance over his brother’s shoulder

55. the same candid I-to-You manner I had chanced to observe him doing when I was a mere toddler of

56. 126 A few weeks later I chanced to find a book that included some of Mr

57. As Father passed me, I chanced a glare at the door

58. Had I not chanced to observe of my grandfather praying after the direct I-to-Thou manner, would

59. ‘Before I chanced upon the Adonis who ought to sire my children? Oh yes, I was

60. ” Christine chanced a glance at Haven to

61. It was a vow she saw mirrored in Joel’s eyes, when she chanced to looked over at him

62. 'Had not the good friar chanced upon the brothers they might still be there, hiding in a ditch, clothed only in rude cloaks made of leaves and straw

63. Yet, in the act of raising his glass privately to his wife, at a moment when the Cookhams chanced to be engaged in eagerly telling each other things they all knew already--the kind gesture would have made Audrey happier if she had been more sure about that baby--he suddenly hesitated, put it down again, and looked

64. Since no zombies were in sight, she chanced opening the passenger side window and lowering the driver’s side an inch

65. They chanced a small fire, and she stirred a can of beef stew

66. I chanced to meet Phillip Connor when he was ten and I was seven; even then I knew I’d marry him

67. " ' I chanced to meet Phillip Connor when he was ten and I was seven

68. Chance; what a chance; she had chanced to look in; it was like a play; dear me, thought each of the seven

69. But Priscilla could not forget all she had made her suffer; and the Prince, who had thought of everything, suddenly producing her head woman from some recess in Baker's Farm, where she too had spent the night, Annalise was superseded, her further bitter fate being to be left behind at Creeper Cottage in the charge of the gentleman with the cheque-book--who as it chanced was a faddist in food and would allow nothing more comforting than dried fruits and nuts to darken the doors--till he should have leisure to pack her up and send her home

70. 'But I don't want to forget mine,' Lucy had said at that, opening her eyes, which as usual had been shut, because the commas of Wemyss's talk with her when they chanced to be alone were his soothing, soporific kisses dropped gently on her closed eyelids

71. She could only suppose that as she was visiting friends just then, she chanced that day to have been in the act of leaving or arriving, and that if she bought a paper on the journey she had looked, as was sometimes her way in trains, not at it but out of the window

72. chanced one last peek over his shoulder, and nearly tripped

73. I chanced my arm and mentioned that I was as randy as a rabbit on viagra, but I was only joking and

74. I chanced a glance up at Minzy and saw her mascara running down her cheeks

75. I wanted it such that I chanced a darker present

76. "And why is that crazy?" Scott chanced

77. In the previous winter a student he knew called Pokorev, who had left for Harkov, had chanced in conversation to give him the address of Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, in case he might want to pawn anything

78. It was when I was wandering about yesterday, rather delirious, I chanced upon a man who had been run over

79. It chanced that they derived a kind of security from the patriotic occupation of the main building, but the true-hearted old gentleman never calculated about that

80. "`We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we common dogs are by those superior Beings--taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree that when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the door barred and the shutters closed, that his people should not see it and take it from us--I say, we were so robbed, and hunted, and were made so poor, that our father told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miserable race die out!'

81. "I chanced yesterday in passing to exchange a couple of words with Katerina Ivanovna, poor woman

82. At the door were standing two young women, girls of the district as they call them, on their way to Seville with some carriers who had chanced to halt that night at the inn; and as, happen what might to our adventurer, everything he saw or imaged seemed to him to be and to happen after the fashion of what he read of, the moment he saw the inn he pictured it to himself as a castle with its four turrets and pinnacles of shining silver, not forgetting the

83. I chanced to be in a frightful den--I like my dens dirty--it was a dance, so called, and there was a _cancan_ such as I never saw in my day

84. Chance, however, and the devil, who is not always asleep, so ordained it that feeding in this valley there was a drove of Galician ponies belonging to certain Yanguesan carriers, whose way it is to take their midday rest with their teams in places and spots where grass and water abound; and that where Don Quixote chanced to be suited the Yanguesans' purpose very well

85. It so happened, then, that as I was one day on the terrace of our prison with three other comrades, trying, to pass away the time, how far we could leap with our chains, we being alone, for all the other Christians had gone out to work, I chanced to raise my eyes, and from one of these little closed windows I saw a reed appear with a cloth attached to the end of it, and it kept waving to and fro, and moving as if making signs to us to come and take it

86. I renewed my promise to be her husband; and thus the next day that the bano chanced to be empty she at different times gave us by means of the reed and cloth two thousand gold crowns and a paper in which she said that the next Juma, that is to say Friday, she was going to her father's garden, but that before she went she would give us more money; and if it were not enough we were to let her know, as she would give us as much as we asked, for her father had so much he would not miss it, and besides she kept all the keys

87. A captain who chanced to pass that way with his company had carried him off from our village when he was a boy of about twelve years, and now twelve years later the young man came back in a soldier's uniform, arrayed in a thousand colours, and all over glass trinkets and fine steel chains

88. " As they set out upon their excursion the placard attracted the eyes of all who chanced to see him, and as they read out, "This is Don Quixote of La Mancha," Don Quixote was amazed to see how many people gazed at him, called him by his name, and recognised him, and turning to Don Antonio, who rode at his side, he observed to him, "Great are the privileges knight-errantry involves, for it makes him who professes it known and famous in every region of the earth; see, Don Antonio, even the very boys of this city know me without ever having seen me

89. "Thou art right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for this painter is like Orbaneja, a painter there was at Ubeda, who when they asked him what he was painting, used to say, 'Whatever it may turn out; and if he chanced to paint a cock he would write under it, 'This is a cock,' for fear they might think it was a fox

90. His respect for rank or fortune was more permanent, though he chanced

91. he would beat her if she chanced to offend him, though she had a child at the

92. But this thought stirred such wrath in me that I believed I should have crushed that "damned" Liza if she had chanced to be near me at the time

93. In his behaviour to me he was a perfect tyrant, he spoke very little to me, and if he chanced to glance at me he gave me a firm, majestically self-confident and invariably ironical look that drove me sometimes to fury

94. Jennings still lower in her estimation; because, through her own weakness, it chanced to prove a source of fresh pain to herself, though Mrs

95. When we had finished our prayers and viewed the spectacle, we turned in the direction of the city; and at that instant Polemarchus the son of Cephalus chanced to catch sight of us from a distance as we were starting on our way home, and told his servant to run and bid us wait for him

96. Now the shepherds met together, according to custom, that they might send their monthly report about the flocks to the king; into their assembly he came having the ring on his finger, and as he was sitting among them he chanced to turn the collet of the ring inside his hand, when instantly he became invisible to the rest of the company and they began to speak of him as if he were no longer present

97. At this point of the housekeeper's story, she chanced to glance towards the time-piece over the chimney; and was in amazement on seeing the minute-hand measure half-past one

98. If a servant chanced to vex her, it was always---"I shall tell papa!" And if he reproved her, even by a look, you would have thought it a heartbreaking business: I don't believe he ever did speak a harsh word to her

99. When I chanced to encounter the housekeeper of Wuthering Heights in paying business-visits to Gimmerton, I used to ask how the young master got on; for he lived almost as secluded as Catherine herself, and was never to be seen