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chance upon
verb as in bump into
Strongest matches
verb as in come across
Weak matches
verb as in encounter
verb as in find
Strongest matches
verb as in hap
Weak matches
verb as in strike
verb as in stumble
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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