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
• There is at least one natural streak in the image — a meteor at centre, caught by chance on one frame.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
• Some stopped during their lunch break, while others stumbled across the competition by chance.
  — ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
• Melanie discovered the lump on her breast by chance in July 2022.
  — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
• The two had met by chance at a restaurant in New Jersey and things escalated from there.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 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
• Before long, the book moves back in time to shadow the king himself, an unhappy leader thrust into his role by chance and now on the brink of death.
  — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
• Erneste and Hwang met by chance at Park Hill High School north of Kansas City.
  — Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
• Charles Lago became owner of Fat Elephants Records by chance.
  — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 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
• This could reveal how common encounters like this are and if more binary systems are composed of stars brought together by chance encounters.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2026
• The necessary alignment happens by chance, and once an event is over, exactly that same alignment will generally never occur again.
  — Thomas Fauchez, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2026
• Despite this scrutiny, the demon cave fish was discovered only recently and completely by chance.
  — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2026
• For instance, a transposon fused in the right location can, by chance, create a novel protein that goes on to regulate other genes spread throughout the genome.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• The United States did not become a scientific superpower by chance.
  — H. Christopher Frey, The Conversation, 7 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
• These mutations aren’t necessarily inherited; instead they can be caused by certain exposures, or simply by chance.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 2 Oct. 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
• When there are multiple logical possibilities for what the next word should be, the model typically selects one of those words by chance, based on their relative frequencies in the data.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
• While Sarah Hancock and Matthew Conaghan met by chance in Santa Monica, their closest circle brought them together.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 8 Sep. 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
• Searching for drug candidates Researchers have discovered a number of drugs by chance, including penicillin for bacterial infections, vaccines for smallpox and warfarin for blood clots.
  — Vivian Lam, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2022
• Coffman came across the township by chance while looking for gold along the Feather River in 1970, according to SFGate.
  — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 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
• Most neutrinos pass invisibly through IceCube, but by chance a few of them will smash into a proton or neutron in the ice, releasing a shower of high-energy electrons, photons and other particles the detectors can see.
  — Tyce Deyoung, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026