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View definitions for chance upon

chance upon

verb as in bump into

verb as in come across

verb as in hap

verb as in stumble

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Example Sentences

While Skylark is away, in the countryside, they chance upon a vitality that has evaded them for too many years.

I was glad to hear we had happened by chance upon such comfortable quarters.

I 'd not go bail for his preferring your interests to his own, but as times go, you might chance upon worse.

This suits us in so many particulars that I am afraid we shall never chance upon its like again.

For if you chance upon a man whom you have not met for some time, you can never be quite sure how to accost him.

Was it by a gracious and happy chance upon himself that the lot would fall?

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On this page you'll find 185 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chance upon, such as: come across, meet up with, run into, encounter, hit, and light.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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