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Example sentences for "chance whatever"

  • There is no chance whatever of the prisoners attempting an escape, for if they did get out of here they could get no further; but they say that we shall not stop here long, and we shall be heartily glad when the order comes.

  • Besides, we should have no chance whatever of coming across a peasant.

  • However I will not refuse your offer, young thanes, though methinks there is no chance whatever of the Welsh disturbing us here.

  • If we were once surrounded we should have no chance whatever.

  • Now that their hiding-place has once been discovered, they will know that our cruisers will keep a sharp look-out here, and a vessel once bottled up in this inlet has no chance whatever of escape.

  • They are all so fast that unless in a strong breeze a frigate has no chance whatever of overhauling them; there is no doubt that they are all of Spanish build, and in a light breeze they sail like witches.

  • At any rate, there would be no chance whatever of your obtaining employment until the war breaks out again.

  • A man who can box only in what you may call a rough-and-ready way has practically no chance whatever with a really scientific pugilist, which I may say I am.

  • He must have felt absolutely certain that there was no chance whatever of your rescue, and that in time you would be forced to accept him, or he would hardly have refrained from pushing his suit more urgently.

  • As long as we lie here there is no chance whatever of Miss Greendale being brought on board again, so the chase now has got to be carried on on land.

  • There is no chance whatever of our being down before that.

  • They were now, he calculated, fully a thousand miles from the land, and there was no chance whatever of any vessel coming across them in these unfrequented seas.

  • There is no chance whatever of that, lad.

  • However, as I have told you many a time, there is no chance whatever of my getting you a midshipman’s berth.

  • From what I can hear," he said, "there is no chance whatever of your being able to get any accommodation, but must take your chance with the others.

  • Starting again as soon as darkness closed in they walked on, with occasional rests, until within a few miles of Glencoe, having followed the line of the railway, where they had no chance whatever of meeting anyone.

  • Of course they have all been plundered," he said to himself; "but if I only had a light I have no doubt I should be able to find an old hat somewhere among the rubbish, but in the dark there is no chance whatever.

  • The council got together and palavered for an hour, and concluded that there was no chance whatever of the Iroquois venturing to attack such a powerful place as Gloucester.

  • It is already two o'clock, and there is no chance whatever of their returning tonight, but I shall go down to the lake and wait till morning.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chance for; chance seedling; chance whatever; chance would; close vessel; communal college; deemed necessary; fifty feet; first story; gave his only begotten; more numerous; order came; political ideas; rock crystal; sandy desert; shall have the honor; smart fire; stopping short; thine absence; things would; this city; through their; twelve months; wherever found; with their