happy chance
Example Sentences
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Other days, prompts to check out a business are more subtle, a stroke of happy chance.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2021
It would transpire that, by happy chance, the virus was maximally infective only when patients were at their most unwell and usually already in hospital.
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2013
One moment during the filming of the upcoming documentary Detropia—an atmospheric look at the economic state of Detroit that debuted at Sundance and starts it’s theatrical roll-out this Friday—epitomized that happy chance.
From Time • Sep. 6, 2012
Ms. Silverstone, whose Broadway debut came in the dreary stage adaptation of “The Graduate,” gets a happy chance at redemption in a tricky role to which she brings warmth, actorly intelligence and delicate humor.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2010
It was the custom of the west-bound freights to take water at this tank, and he trusted to a happy chance that such a train might come along before daylight.
From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.
