How to Use stand a chance of in a Sentence

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• So in what market could an emerging hedge fund stand a chance of making outsized returns?
  — Guan Zhen Tan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• Like her family, strangers don’t stand a chance of shaking her confidence.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
• The proposals that stand a chance of getting through both chambers are limited in scope.
  — Abby Vesoulis, Time, 3 June 2022
• Nothing on the current pay-TV landscape would stand a chance of coming close.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
• Devin Booker didn’t stand a chance of being voted an All-Star starter for the first time.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
• Every pillar is necessary if the world is to stand a chance of meeting its climate objectives.
  — William Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2021
• Plants and flowers that are starting to wilt need to be tossed immediately so the foul odor doesn't stand a chance of taking over your home.
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
• Faes are forbidden to enter this library – only a human can stand a chance of getting inside.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
• Plants and flowers that are starting to wilt need to be tossed immediately so the foul odor doesn't stand a chance of taking over your home.
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2025
• The splatter screen, on the other hand, has fine mesh holes big enough to allow steam to escape, but small enough that oil doesn’t stand a chance of going anywhere.
  — Emma Wartzman, Bon Appétit, 4 May 2021
• The vast majority of organisms that have lived on the planet didn’t stand a chance of becoming fossils.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2023
• Pay it forward after tourism’s devastating hiatus and help mom-and-pop businesses stand a chance of survival.
  — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2020
• While neither is likely to get the sort of reception that has greeted Weird, both projects stand a chance of showing up on the cultural radar.
  — Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022
• Are these formats fair and do the newcomers actually ever stand a chance of claiming victory?
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 13 July 2022
• Employees left out of the business school experience often don't stand a chance of moving into the C-suite in years to come.
  — Fortune, 29 Oct. 2021
• Only with today’s machines and technology do scientists stand a chance of keeping up with life’s abundance.
  — Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2025
• As the drones become more capable and the guidance software becomes smarter, no low-tech organization will stand a chance of survival.
  — Kevin Drum, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
• Because for starters, Kennedy will have to work hard to qualify for the ballot in enough states to even theoretically stand a chance of winning.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The idea was to generate concepts that might actually stand a chance of getting approved and built — or at least serve as a functional basis for future designs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• Today, the competition among miners is such that large fleets of specialized, energy-guzzling hardware are necessary to stand a chance of winning.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
• Simon needs approval from Kiffmeyer's committee for any bills to stand a chance of passing the divided Legislature.
  — Stephen Montemayor Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• Younger composers who resisted this doctrine, preferring evolution to revolution, did not stand a chance of gaining attention.
  — Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• An aspiring financial analyst, Opafola has to invest consistently over the next 15 years to stand a chance of achieving this dream.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2022
• If Welbeck, Mitoma and Rutter can rediscover their form, Brighton stand a chance of sparking into life.
  — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
• Emma laughs this off — most students don't even get accepted into the Crime Fighting major, let alone stand a chance of making it into the Top Ten.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2023
• Ahead of the ceremony, pundits thought Sinners might stand a chance of winning this award, as the producers are historically more apt to award bigger moneymakers.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
• In 2012, when the two were competing for best original song at the Golden Globes, John said that Madonna didn’t stand a chance of beating him.
  — Yan Zhuang, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
• Psilocybin certainly doesn’t act as a human repellent—to stand a chance of overdosing, a human would have to eat around 1,000 times more mushrooms than required for an average trip.
  — Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
• As criminal-justice advocates point out, all too often our system extracts guilty pleas from people who may stand a chance of success at trial but are intimidated by the prospect of mandatory minimum sentences.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
• Fulham, like Watford and Norwich before it, has to spend enough money to stand a chance of remaining in the Premier League, but not spend so much that — in the event of failure — the club’s future is endangered.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022