How to Use stand a chance of in a Sentence

stand a chance of

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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
  • 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
  • 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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