“Should we bring an umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?”

“I would chance to meet a man who proved to be a most unusual character.”

“On a visit many years ago they chanced upon a man who declared he had the best plot of land on God's Earth, on the shores of Loch Melford.”

“Was he a highly-charged risk-taker who, away from his family, had chanced all on a madcap, criminal adventure?”

“After some hedging and indecision, we decided, or rather chanced, to take a walk, it being a sunny October day.”