Antonym: on purpose. Similar words: chance, take a chance, enhance, change, channel, mechanic, merchant, exchange. Meaning: adv. 1. in an incidental manner 2. through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.." 3. by accident 4. without advance planning.
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31) A tourist had filmed the robbery by chance.
32) Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. Jim Rohn
33) I saw his fancy woman by chance one day.
34) Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
35) But they'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance.
36) Perhaps if it hadn't happened so handily by chance(sentencedict.com/by chance.html), he would have engineered a meeting.
37) Fortunately, just by chance, I had an appointment the next day with my naturopath and told her what was happening.
38) Perhaps it is no more improbable than anything else that may happen by chance in this universe.
39) By chance he was the advertisement on the back of the Sunday paper.
40) It was purely by chance that Nicholson was cast for the film.
41) Subsequent studies have come to less clear conclusions, and a few scientists believe that the monkey results are explained by chance.
42) The House debates a Bill on Second Reading and it is passed by chance rather than as a benefit of the arguments.
43) A friend and I, by chance leaving the hotel, stopped to watch the candidates greet the crowd.
44) Then, that autumn, and quite by chance, something happened which was to alter his life.
45) I met an old friend by chance on the train.
46) By chance he said there was an old cottage up here.
47) You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet. Victor Hugo
48) By chance he, his wife and child had spent their summer holiday at Sam Son.
49) Like individuals, organizations fall into bad habits and ineffectual behaviors more or less by chance.
50) He was saved when company director dad Paul, 42, looked in by chance.
51) If by chance he does he purges himself by religiously prescribed ablutions.
52) It is not constituted by many distinct parts, linked together by chance.
53) Can it be by chance that mankind's sacred places are almost always spaces where echoed are heard to particularly good effect?
54) Quite by chance, and unknown to the police, the incident was filmed and broadcast later on national television news.
55) You must constantly ask yourself these questions: who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
56) This latter line is also statistically significant; the points on the line are most unlikely to be there purely by chance.
57) But it would be truly amazing if the most efficient rule for the job already existed, just by chance.
58) The direction of the new world order will be greatly affected by chance.
59) Rose became a widow two years ago and by chance met Reg while shopping.
60) He had no reply to this letter either. One day the two men met by chance out on the dunes.
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