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Example sentences for "small chance"

  • Even with your spears, and others you might gather, and all my friends in Tweeddale, we should have had but a small chance of capturing the Bairds' hold.

  • I fear that there is small chance of the Scots making their way hither," Oswald's instructor said, in lugubrious tones.

  • In our movements, however, there would be small chance of remedy if the blockships failed to find the canal entrance, or if the submarines were unable to locate the viaduct, or if the storming vessels missed the Mole.

  • Small chance of meeting the enemy in hand-to-hand combat would come their way.

  • There was no small chance of the Vindictive being mined en route, owing to her heavy draught, or of being sunk by gun-fire, owing to the large target which she would present, before reaching the Mole.

  • Small chance of that, boy, if only we lie low, and make no move apt to attract their attention," Perk was told in a confident tone that effectually calmed his rising alarm.

  • Now lie low and don't do any talking, though with their crate kicking up all that row I reckon there'd be small chance of their hearing us even if we shouted.

  • It is easy for you to say that, boy, when you know that he would not strike you now, and that there is small chance of your meeting again after you have grown up to prove the truth of what you say.

  • If we once begin, and chance to fail, every man of us must die, and our colony, thus left so weak, would stand a small chance of surviving in the midst of so many savages.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small chance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bluntly pointed; fervent heat; natural right; night fell; previous state; small and; small bottle; small brass; small children; small church; small compass; small herd; small library; small octavo; small people; small pica; small price; small screw; small settlement; small stone; small thing; small things; small village; small voice; spiritual nature; thoroughly washed