How to Use by chance in a Sentence

by chance

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• The president first learned the full extent of the threat almost by chance.
  — David Blumenthal, STAT, 20 July 2026
• Melanie discovered the lump on her breast by chance in July 2022.
  — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
• And if by chance any players don’t care for rings, these kinds of memorabilia tend to raise lots of money for charity.
  — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 17 July 2026
• The prosecutor said their paths crossed by chance and that the roles in the criminal case could easily have been reversed.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2026
• In July 2022, Melanie discovered a lump on her breast by chance.
  — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 22 July 2026
• Erneste and Hwang met by chance at Park Hill High School north of Kansas City.
  — Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
• My best friend, by chance, was at LaGuardia Airport, trying to change his flight to Houston.
  — Tanner Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026
• Randomized trials assign people to different treatments by chance and follow them over time.
  — Lucy McGowan, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2026
• These teams aren't assembled by chance; they are carefully curated for their specific skills and complementary strengths to deliver results.
  — Marcin Nowak, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
• If, by chance, Mbappe and Messi were to end the tournament with an equal number of goals and assists, the award would go to the player who achieved those goals/assists in the fewest number of minutes.
  — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
• The pair had spent the previous night talking for hours after meeting by chance in the elevator of a youth hostel in Munich in May 1998.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
• Randomization solves this problem because exposures are assigned by chance, ensuring that the groups being compared are similar in every way on average except for the exposure itself.
  — Lucy McGowan, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2026
• The actress and singer met Skrip by chance while the two were vacationing in Egypt, with Williams later recalling that their unexpected encounter blossomed into a lasting romance.
  — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
• The Reddit co-founder asked Williams to marry him at Rome’s Cavalieri Hotel—the same place where their paths first crossed by chance in May 2015.
  — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 1 July 2026
• Damon and Barroso have been together for over two decades, after crossing paths by chance in 2003 while Damon was filming Stuck on You in Miami, where Barroso was working as a bartender.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026
• The film follows Lena (Lena Trifunović), an anarchist student active in Belgrade’s anti-government movement, and Stefan (Andrija Krivokapić), a working-class youth who finds himself, almost by chance, among pro-government loyalists.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 23 July 2026