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Example sentences for "second chance"

  • We have to make welfare what it was meant to be--a second chance, not a way of life.

  • That's the only way we'll ever make welfare what it ought to be, a second chance, not a way of life.

  • We should help faith-based organizations do more to fight poverty and drug abuse and help young people get back on the right track with initiatives like Second Chance Homes to help unwed teen mothers.

  • The moral purpose (if any) of the author, as conveyed to us through the mouth of the leading humourist of the party, is to show that a man's nature would remain the same even if he got a Second Chance.

  • We have a house party of actual humans (not too obtrusively actual), most of whom, including the butler, imagine that if they could have a Second Chance in life they would not make such a mess of it as they did with the First.

  • WHEN autumn came to the Souris valley and touched the trees with crimson and gold, it found that some progress had been made on the farm that was getting its second chance.

  • They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for--a second chance.

  • But I see I was just the same nice old lazy Coady as before; and I had thought that if I had a second chance, I could do things.

  • I have often thought, Coady, that if I had a second chance I should be a useful man instead of just a nice lazy one.

  • You had a second chance, and it is her, again!

  • I have sometimes wondered," he said, "why there is no second chance; why one cannot wipe the slate clear of everything that has been and start anew.

  • Fate HAS brought within my orbit a second chance, or what would have been a second chance had my heart not been so full of you.

  • For you there is a second chance," she reminded him.

  • But a second chance; the idea seems so fair, so plausible.

  • I committed another when Percival had paid the penalty of his own obstinacy and violence, by granting Lady Glyde a second reprieve from the mad-house, and allowing Mr. Hartright a second chance of escaping me.

  • Then he stopped again, and said, 'Will you take a second chance, if I give it to you?

  • The baronet, who had no country tastes of any kind, and no attachment to the estate or to any one living on it, declared that society at Blackwater should never have a second chance of annoying him, and left the place from that moment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aged father; chance whatever; half lemon; irresponsible power; low voice; many votes; second base; second brood; second chapter; second class; second crop; second death; second floor; second hand; second husband; second lieutenant; second only; second person; second reading; second series; second shot; second son; second stage; second trial; second voyage; secondary consideration