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
I am not a man, Miss Tressillian, to run the chance of another repulse.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
It was evidently better to bivouac in the open than to run the chance of so crushing a punishment.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.
Another is that the dog may acquire the "Toho" before he has run the chance of being cowed in learning the "Drop."
From The Dog by Dinks
If these fiends," he exclaimed,—the triumph of Oconostota had gone very hard with him,—"were like any other enemy we could afford to run the chance.
From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles
