How to Use stand a chance of in a Sentence
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Devin Booker didn’t stand a chance of being voted an All-Star starter for the first time.
— Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2023 -
Nothing on the current pay-TV landscape would stand a chance of coming close.
— Washington Post, 22 June 2021 -
The proposals that stand a chance of getting through both chambers are limited in scope.
— Abby Vesoulis, Time, 3 June 2022 -
So in what market could an emerging hedge fund stand a chance of making outsized returns?
— Guan Zhen Tan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021 -
The splatter screen, on the other hand, has fine mesh holes big enough to allow steam to escape, but small enough that oil doesn’t stand a chance of going anywhere.
— Emma Wartzman, Bon Appétit, 4 May 2021 -
While neither is likely to get the sort of reception that has greeted Weird, both projects stand a chance of showing up on the cultural radar.
— Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022 -
Employees left out of the business school experience often don't stand a chance of moving into the C-suite in years to come.
— Fortune, 29 Oct. 2021 -
The vast majority of organisms that have lived on the planet didn’t stand a chance of becoming fossils.
— Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2023 -
Fulham, like Watford and Norwich before it, has to spend enough money to stand a chance of remaining in the Premier League, but not spend so much that — in the event of failure — the club’s future is endangered.
— New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022 -
Pay it forward after tourism’s devastating hiatus and help mom-and-pop businesses stand a chance of survival.
— Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2020 -
The idea was to generate concepts that might actually stand a chance of getting approved and built — or at least serve as a functional basis for future designs.
— Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021 -
Targeted policies such as increasing funding for Pell grants would help reduce the number of low-income students who have to take on debt to attend college—and stand a chance of passing.
— WSJ, 1 June 2021 -
Are these formats fair and do the newcomers actually ever stand a chance of claiming victory?
— Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 13 July 2022 -
An aspiring financial analyst, Opafola has to invest consistently over the next 15 years to stand a chance of achieving this dream.
— Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2022 -
Simon needs approval from Kiffmeyer's committee for any bills to stand a chance of passing the divided Legislature.
— Stephen Montemayor Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020 -
Psilocybin certainly doesn’t act as a human repellent—to stand a chance of overdosing, a human would have to eat around 1,000 times more mushrooms than required for an average trip.
— Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 24 June 2020 -
The intensely competitive housing market has, in many cases, required buyers to use every available resource to stand a chance of winning.
— Sean Clark, CNN, 18 Feb. 2022 -
So, back to the dramatic gesture: What could Biden undertake that would stand a chance of providing an aggressive narrative framework for his campaign and maybe get people’s attention?
— Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023 -
In the coming years, one of the countless competing services might even stand a chance of toppling the industry leader, but that probably won’t happen as long as most people believe that Netflix has the best selection of original content.
— Jacob Siegal, BGR, 14 Apr. 2021 -
Younger composers who resisted this doctrine, preferring evolution to revolution, did not stand a chance of gaining attention.
— Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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