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Chanced meaning

simple past and past participle of chance

Using Chanced

  • The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of chance
  • In the example corpus, chanced often appears in combinations such as: chanced upon, chanced to, chanced on.

Context around Chanced

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Chanced

  • In this selection, "chanced" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, dad, police, writers, upon and across stand out and add context to how "chanced" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 2020 but chanced upon hundreds and always be chanced to engage. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "chanced" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with chanced

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

They chanced the single after Sciver hit the ball pretty much straight to mid-wicket. (15 words)

Pace was always his biggest gift once he chanced to lay his hands on a cricket ball. (17 words)

When Datta moved to the UK at the age of 11, he accidentally chanced on his grandmother’s sarod in storage. (21 words)

My interest in Mozambique was piqued when I chanced upon “Andrea, Queen of the Mantas”, a documentary about renowned marine biologist Dr Andrea Marshall’s discovery that Mozambique was home to marine animals no one had ever seen. (38 words)

That being said, for tea, after a bag I had ordered from the Marks & Spencer at Lime Street Station was cancelled, I chanced across one going from Yo Sushi, that contained a fair amount of salmon nigiri. (37 words)

Xaphanex is quite lucky that their dad chanced across such a large collection of GameCube titles at his local yard sale, especially one that only cost him a mere five bucks to make his own. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

Pace was always his biggest gift once he chanced to lay his hands on a cricket ball.

Prosecutor Mike Greenhalgh said police swooped on Binns’s home for an “entirely unrelated matter” in July 2020 but chanced upon hundreds of Ecstasy-type tablets in his bedroom.

That being said, for tea, after a bag I had ordered from the Marks & Spencer at Lime Street Station was cancelled, I chanced across one going from Yo Sushi, that contained a fair amount of salmon nigiri.

Whitehorse resident Susan Mooney was in Seattle last spring and chanced to visit the U.S. Park Service Klondike gold rush display in Pioneer Square.

Xaphanex is quite lucky that their dad chanced across such a large collection of GameCube titles at his local yard sale, especially one that only cost him a mere five bucks to make his own.

Skipper Faf du Plessis also chanced his arm and was dropped twice before his middle stump was knocked over by left-arm spinner Waqar Salamkheil in the eighth over.

Based on the information, the Asangrangwa police laid surveillance and bought wrappers of substance suspected to be cannabis sativa (Indian hemp) from the suspects in order for easy identification, should the police chanced on them.

During his monthlong stay, Hugo searched for a response to this prompt, and inspiration came when he chanced upon a platter of desiccated fruits in Oaxaca.

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I’ve never seen any leader in government since 1999, and it’s always so until you chanced to be player there.

There is an entire mini-series about The Night Begins to Shine, a song that the writers chanced upon on a CD of library music.

In response to Goodluck Jonathan’s untold hypocrisy, it is necessary to always point out their flaws in this manner even if we cannot always be chanced to engage them in persons.

Miss X chanced to look through her kitchen window, and there, floating over the hills of Lambert’s Cove, was a vision.

They chanced the single after Sciver hit the ball pretty much straight to mid-wicket.

We have chanced upon an interesting video circulating on social media which shows the kinds of stuff that is being practised in our churches, especially in Africa.

When Datta moved to the UK at the age of 11, he accidentally chanced on his grandmother’s sarod in storage.

But that was not until he had, in his moments of obligatory introspection while in Dubai, chanced on a news report about the episodic tragedy of Nigerian returnees from Libya.

I believed that I chanced upon many fascinating detectives, investigators, FBI agents and investigations in my career, and I wanted to share my experiences in a novel.

My interest in Mozambique was piqued when I chanced upon “Andrea, Queen of the Mantas”, a documentary about renowned marine biologist Dr Andrea Marshall’s discovery that Mozambique was home to marine animals no one had ever seen.

Transcending Bizarre? was one of the many random bands I chanced upon when scouring the web for the most needlessly underground metal bands possibly back in my teenage years.

As Rama and Lakshmana chanced upon the stricken and dying Jatayu in their search for Sita, he informs them of the direction in which Ravana had gone.

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Common combinations with chanced

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "chanced" in a sentence?
An example: "Pace was always his biggest gift once he chanced to lay his hands on a cricket ball." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "chanced" from authentic English texts.
What does "chanced" mean?
Chanced means: simple past and past participle of chance
How many example sentences with "chanced" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "chanced", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.