by chance

Example Sentences

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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

“A coincidence,” Glory said, “is something that happens by chance.”

From Literature

But he seems to have learned of the bug by chance, when his gardener plunged a shovel through an underground wire.

From Los Angeles Times

The couple met by chance when they were on separate walks along the South West Coast Path in 2011, and ended up married three years later.

From BBC