Example Sentences

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"But in down-to-earth William and nice, middle-class Kate, maybe the monarchy has chanced upon a marriage that can help it reinvent itself."

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2011

So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has chanced to inform with the perfect suggestion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jutta comes home one afternoon, pasted with dust, to discover that big Claudia Forster has chanced upon a paper bakery box sealed with gold tape.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

These are the finest grounds of the sort and by far the most extensive devoted to such a purpose which the author has chanced to see.

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Ballou, Maturin Murray

So it is, so it has chanced; the hazard of the die has gone against him, and he has nothing left.

From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Jókai, Mór