Use chances in a sentence
Sentences ending with chances
- I'll classify you with the Remarkables, and take the chances. [5]
- There warn't no way but to wait for dark, and start back in the canoe and take the chances. [5]
- However, Eagle Bend was two miles wide at this bank-full stage, and correspondingly long and deep; and the boat was steering herself straight down the middle and taking no chances. [5]
- Not that it was necessary, but the Northeastern Railroads never take any chances. [9]
- Eliphalet had inherited the principle of mathematical chances. [9]
- How was it that men did not use their chances? [11]
- It was clear that I must bide my chances. [11]
- I had to take chances. [13]
- The invincibles had seen Tim coming, but they had determined to make a sure thing of it, and would themselves do what was necessary with the impostor, and take no chances. [11]
- I snatched both revolvers from the holsters and began to measure distances and calculate chances. [5]
Short sentences using chances
- His chances were not brilliant. [11]
- He doesn't see his chances. [5]
- It has got good chances. [11]
- There's plenty of chances. [5]
- He measured his chances. [11]
- I wouldn't take any chances. [5]
Sentences containing chances two or more times
- Then you drive over to Suspension Bridge, and divide your misery between the chances of smashing down two hundred feet into the river below, and the chances of having the railway-train overhead smashing down onto you. [5]
- With the chances of fortune he had won; with the chances of love and happiness he had lost. [11]
- The chances of making money disreputably are so great that the chances are against a man who has made money if he's made a great deal of it. [8]
- And if I know anything about politics, and especially the state of affairs in local politics with which you are concerned, the incident and the interval following it will be fatal to your chances with the railroad,--to your chances in general. [9]
- She knew that he valued the chances of life or death no more than he valued the thousand and one other chances of small importance, which occur in daily experience. [11]
- He had almost determined to get Delia on Gaston's boat, and himself take the chances with the Kismet; but his sailors dissuaded him, declaring that the chances were against succour. [11]
More example sentences with the word chances in them
- In short, if you will set me down at Saville, I am willing to take my chances of reaching the Canadian Pacific from that point without fear of detection. [9]
- I might let you go and speak; but I think my chances are better than yours, Cluny. [11]
- What great chances you are hazarding! [10]
- For a good while I said to myself every morning: "Now I have escaped thus far, and so the chances are just that much increased that I shall catch it this time. [5]
- He is embarrassed which to choose, and is not unlikely to waste years in dallying with his chances, before giving himself to the serious tug and strain of a single object. [5]
- All the chances were that Mr. Maurice Kirkwood was the author. [6]
- But the chances were I should not have developed it, since it would seem that any salvation for me at least must come precisely through suffering, through not getting what I wanted. [9]
- I wish father were here and were his old self again--Oh, he never in his life had such chances as these are. [5]
- Seti then had weighed his chances, had seen the avenging friends of Ebn Haroun behind the ghaffirs, and therefore permitted himself to be marched off to the mudirieh. [11]
- How often do we spoil our best chances by following an urgent instinct to arrive at certainty as early as possible, and by not being strong enough to postpone opening our business till a favorable moment offers. [10]
- The huge round waves of ice were slippery and difficult to climb, and the chances of tripping and sliding down them and darting into a crevice were too many to be comfortable. [5]
- You see, Cauchon was managing to narrow her chances more and more all the time; he was drawing the toils closer and closer. [5]
- And while we was lookin' and tossin' pennies like as to his chances out there, a grey New Zealand mare nips out across the veld stretchin' every string. [11]
- And all this was found in Alexander I; all this had been prepared by innumerable so-called chances in his life: his education, his early liberalism, the advisers who surrounded him, and by Austerlitz, and Tilsit, and Erfurt. [2]
- So if you want to make the trip, come to Chattanooga and take your chances of meeting me. [9]
- The moon set very early now, and as every one in Chaudiere was supposed to be in bed by ten o'clock, the chances of not being seen were in her favour. [11]
- When I got up to Redding and had become a doctor, I looked around to see what my chances were for aiding in, the great work. [5]
- She gave herself up to a sweet and simple sense of pride in the deed she had done for him, disturbed but slightly by the chances of discovery, and the remembrance of the match that showed her face at Archangel's Rise. [11]
- He took me up into a private room in the fort, where you were; and the surgeon, who was there at the time, said that your chances were as slim as any man's he had ever seen. [9]
- I also became unintentionally acquainted with a secret, which seriously endangered his chances of obtaining the crown; and lastly, I prevented his carrying off a virtuous maiden from the house of her grandmother, an aged woman, beloved and respected by all the Greeks. [10]
- The invaders flee, turn back, flee again, and all the chances are now not for Napoleon but always against him. [2]
- I want money, too; and if one may judge by what she hears, there are chances there for a--. [5]
- In my opinion Tom Driscoll's chances were considerable better yesterday than they are to-day. [5]
- I had wanted to, but I had not been willing to take desperate chances, and had always dissuaded the king from them. [5]
- Inquired about chances to run to blockade and visit the Alhambra at Granada. [5]
- We shall have to run the chances of rifles along the shore at a range something short, but we have done that before, at the Barricades, eh, Carbourd? [11]
- But ten chances to one his father has different views. [4]
- That's what appeals to me, and to some other folks I know--especially when we take into account the situation you was in and the chances you had. [9]
- If they listened to him talk philosophy, encouraged him to do it, and told him they liked it, when the bargain was being made, the chances are the security is inadequate. [11]
- It is great to have all the chances against and then to win. [11]
- There is more to be said about the chances for a successful marriage in these days, but I'm not going to dwell on that now, or attempt to shoulder off my shortcomings on my bringing up, on the civilization in which we have lived. [9]
- From time to time he glanced backward, as a wise general in retreat calculating his chances and the power and speed of pursuers, and the moment for the last desperate burst. [13]
- I knew how things were going, and what the chances were of the sentence being carried out on you. [11]
- While I think there are many chances to one that this is a humbug, it occurs to me that any real movement of this sort in the Army would leak out and become known to you. [7]
- Little farmers on their way to the market by the Place de Cathedral stopped, listening, though every moment's delay lessened their chances of getting a stand in the market- place. [11]
- Buonespoir looked to the priming of his pistols, and buckling his belt tightly about him, turned to the Seigneur and said: "I will take my chances with Abednego. [11]
- Every Orangeman of the Lodge of Lebanon afterwards denied that he had raised the cry; and the chances are that every one spoke the truth. [11]
- But having chosen the law as a stepping-stone to the lobby, to speculation, and the manipulation of chances, he had a poor opinion of politics and of politicians. [4]
- I was increasing the chances against myself all the time, by feeling a secret bitterness against Lem for having attracted this fatal attention to me, but I could not help it--this sinful thought persisted in infesting my breast in spite of me. [5]
- The brain of the bird is not large; but it is all concentrated on one object, and that is the attempt to elude the devices of modern civilization which injure his chances of food. [4]
- Everything is with the aristocrat; he has to kick the great chances from his path; but the peasant must go hunting them in peril. [11]
- Whether it was, that, if trigamy should come into fashion, there would be three times as many chances to enjoy the luxury of saying, "No! [6]
- The chances were that there was not another boat on the entire lake. [5]
- He took chances that no other horse ever took and survived, but he always came out safe. [5]
- If he believed that his chances of obtaining either were as poor as the majority of men find them to be, ambition would die within him. [4]
- But the consciousness that her look betrayed this softened her at once towards Mr. Meigs, and decidedly improved his chances for the evening. [4]
- The chances are, that he would have escaped away with his pockets full, and jibed at me from a safe distance. [4]
- The chances are that he would give it tusks and make it lay eggs. [5]
- Word was brought that Bucklaw still lived, but was in a high fever, and that the chances were all against him; and Phips sent cordials and wines from his own stores, and asked that news be brought to him of any change. [11]
- There are chances that both of you may survive. [5]
- She had the temper of a man in her real enjoyment of the desperate chances of life. [11]
- Also he was sure he had injured the chances of the Government by the defeat of his policy. [11]
- They are so supremely selfish that if the least difference in taste develops, or if another man or woman chances along whom they momentarily fancy more than their own husbands or wives, they get a divorce. [9]
- In the troubled state of Ireland, with internal discord, challenge, and attack, he had more than once fought, and with success; but that was in the rough-and-tumble of life's chances, as it were, with no deliberate plan to fight according to the rules. [11]
- Since coming to St. Saviour's he had been constant to one attraction, and he had not risked his chances with Zoe by response to the shy invitations of dark eyes, young and not so young, which met his own here and there in the parish. [11]
- And he's right--it's something we've got to decide on right away, and get started on soon, we can't afford to wobble and run any chances of a revolt. [9]
- I felt that some day I could get the book back under my control if I so desired, while the chances of the book making an immediate phenomenal sale were not great. [11]
- The atmosphere was so rarified, on account of the great altitude, that one's blood lay near the surface always, and the scratch of a pin was a disaster worth worrying about, for the chances were that a grievous erysipelas would ensue. [5]
- The chances were so great that my grandfather would be in bed and under the guardianship of my uncle that I forbore, and resolved instead to write it to Captain Daniel at my first opportunity. [9]
- But history has shown that when he is abroad observing unfamiliar peoples the chances are heavily against him. [5]
- By a strange series of chances it turned up in our day, and was identified and prepared for the press in 1861. [4]
- I found myself seeking chances to shirk into corners where I might think, undisturbed; and the most I got out of my thought, was this: both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it. [5]
- She took occasional rests from practicing, and absorbed herself in calculating her chances. [5]
- I made that remark to my pastor once, who said, with what he seemed to think was an impressive manner-- 'I wouldn't worry about that, if I had your chances. [5]
- The fifth resolution recommends that a Whig candidate for Congress be run in every district, regardless of the chances of success. [7]
- Resolved, That we recommend to the Whigs of each Congressional district of the State to nominate and support at the approaching election a candidate of their own principles, regardless of the chances of success. [7]
- Like every healthy prisoner, he thought upon means and chances of escape. [11]
- He was, however, preparing to go away and it had not entered his head to regret that he was thus depriving himself of chances of meeting her. [2]
- There was a possibility that the bull might not think of it, but there were greater chances that he would. [5]
- Sometimes we discussed our slim chances and gave them as good an appearance as we could. [5]
- Napoleon having cut our armies apart advanced far into the country and missed several chances of forcing an engagement. [2]
- It is the only good, certain way, for whenever he mentions a matter which he is cordially interested in, the chances are ninety-nine in a hundred that he secures somebody else's immediate attention to it too, whether it day or night. [5]
- Watches are kept on those narrow necks, at needful times, and if a man happens to be caught cutting a ditch across them, the chances are all against his ever having another opportunity to cut a ditch. [5]
- The saddle hangs on Tara's walls down below in the stable, and the machine is at Bliss's grimly pursuing its appointed mission, slowly and implacably rotting away another man's chances for salvation. [5]
- The stock markets of the world gambled upon its chances, and its bonds at one time were high in favor. [7]
- It was full of the element of chance, and he had been taking chances all his life. [11]
- The remote possibility of such a catastrophe had frightened some timid dwellers beneath The Mountain to other places of residence; here the danger was most imminent, and yet he loved to dwell upon the chances of its occurrence. [6]
- He was aware of how much power lay in the threatening face before him, and how eager that power was to make itself felt, and provide "Examples"; but he took his chances. [11]
- He was sure of his game; but there were difficulties, and he must not throw his chances away. [11]
- Yet he had not enough ability to develop his position by the chances offered him. [11]
- If he was not armed, well, then, there would be the chances in his favour; it wasn't easy to kill with hands alone. [11]
- I think his nomination possible, but that the chances are against him. [7]
- Yes, he was narrowing her chances down, step by step. [5]
- I says to myself I've botched my chances by that; I surely have, if he meets up with Hal Clayton. [5]
- Now I take my chances, simply because I'm a fool too, in spite of all the wisdom I see in history and in life's experiences. [11]
- I shall take my chances for my life. [11]
- He said I must take my chances on the witnesses then. [5]
- However, the chances must be taken--it wouldn't do to waste such a joke as that. [5]
- He was so much a gamester that he would have said, "Let the best man win," and have taken his chances. [11]
- Necessity is the mother of "taking chances. [5]
- He had not miscalculated his chances in life. [3]
- My uncle wanted me to stay East and go in on the Mobile custom house, work up the Washington end of it; he said there was a fortune in it for a smart young fellow, but I preferred to take the chances out here. [5]
- You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. [5]
- What does it matter to thee what chances to Nahoum? [11]
- He was calculating many things: planning, counting chances, marshalling his resources. [11]
- When a man looks distinguished and is clever, and knows how to please if he likes, he cannot help having a career, unless he is afraid to take the chances. [4]
- A young person like this may pierce, as the Frenchmen say, by and by, but the chances are all the other way. [6]
- Indeed, both might leave it wounded, and the chances of success were with the older man, Mallow, whose experience would give him an advantage. [11]
- Before the war labour discovered its strength; since the war began, especially in the allied nations with quasi-democratic institutions, it is aware of its power to exert a leverage capable of paralyzing industry for a period sufficient to destroy the chances of victory. [9]
- She did not know what she would say to Lise if she should find her; and in spite of Mr. Tiernan's expressed confidence, the chances of success seemed remote. [9]
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