happy chance
Example Sentences
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Other days, prompts to check out a business are more subtle, a stroke of happy chance.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2021
It would transpire that, by happy chance, the virus was maximally infective only when patients were at their most unwell and usually already in hospital.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2013
Or not so happy chance, as the case may be.
From Time ● Sep. 6, 2012
Ms. Silverstone, whose Broadway debut came in the dreary stage adaptation of “The Graduate,” gets a happy chance at redemption in a tricky role to which she brings warmth, actorly intelligence and delicate humor.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2010
"To what happy chance may we owe this somewhat unexpected gratification?"
From The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville by A. L. O. E.
