at odds

How to use at odds in a sentence

Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.

A fellow rudely clad—a hybrid between man-at-arms and lackey—lounged on a musket to confront them in the gateway.

The cupidity of a man had evidently led him to collect together these odds and ends, and try to turn them to profitable account.

Meadows began to play inner planet combinations that occasionally paid, though at short odds.

We made a good fight I know, the odds were in our favour and success seemed assured.

A stronger man would have fought against odds like those and won for himself a place that would suffer no denial.

Thus it was that he himself created the morale which enabled him again and again to conquer against overwhelming odds.

Our books and maps showed that we would encounter by odds the worst roads of our entire tour.

And the Seneschal, moved by that confident promise of evil, threw himself before the men-at-arms.

On the first day, a thousand English archers, supported by men-at-arms, attempted to draw the Scots.

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