run the chance

Example Sentences

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Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then you run the chance of their unfriendliness, too.”

From Betty Lee, Sophomore by Grove, Harriet Pyne

Another is that the dog may acquire the "Toho" before he has run the chance of being cowed in learning the "Drop."

From The Dog by Dinks

You kept your word and disgraced me once, if I don't know how you did it; but I won't run the chance of that again!

From The La Chance Mine Mystery by Gage, George W.

As I went through Leicester Square lately I was going to call and buy you some, but not knowing but you might have some I would not run the chance of buying duplicates.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John