by chance

Example Sentences

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But it was only by chance that I was by myself when my phone buzzed and displayed an on-screen message with some additional questions from the dog sitter I’d booked for our trip.

From The Wall Street Journal

Stewart said they met again by chance at a game fair in the summer of 1995, when they passed each other in an aisle.

From BBC

Speaking to BBC Breakfast on Monday, she said she initially trained as a circus performer, before coming across skeleton by chance on social media in 2019.

From BBC

Immaculately dressed in a fur-collared coat and white scarf, conductor Herman Makarenko led nine string players before dozens of people, some of whom had stopped by chance.

From Barron's

"Whatever we are dealing with here," he said, "it is certain that the words have not come to us by chance. They give us instructions, and a warning."

From Literature