ADVERB
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without advance planning
they met accidentally -
through chance
To sleep, perchance to dream... -
by accident
betrayed by a word haply overheard
How To Use by chance In A Sentence
- Here and there amid the chaos, delicate things have survived by chance.
- `Oh hullo, Darrow," I said as if I had encountered him by chance at a garden party. ULTIMATE PRIZES
- This gruelling sporting discipline came along by chance. Times, Sunday Times
- It is not constituted by many distinct parts, linked together by chance.
- Of course, there are beautiful scenes and views in nature, but that happens by chance.
- Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance.
- If a result is significant, it means that you're pretty sure that it's unlikely to have happened by chance.
- Surviving manuscripts have been preserved by chance, so there will always be lacunae in the documentary record.
- A friend and I, by chance leaving the hotel, stopped to watch the candidates greet the crowd.
- Many great defamation judgments have been written by Chancery judges.