run the chance
Example Sentences
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Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far better to lose a bird, a thing I detest doing, than run the chance of spoiling a young dog.
From The Dog by Dinks
“Dartnell, who is to lead you, is a smart officer, and by all accounts the Zulus are mustering pretty thick in the neighbourhood, so that you will run the chance of some sharp fighting.”
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by Adams, H.C.
We’ll go pretty close, so as not to run the chance of missing.
From The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger by Graydon, William Murray
Instances have been known of his burrowing under ground to procure the bait from a trap, rather than run the chance of being caught above.
From Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
