Definition of Sporting chance

1. Noun. A reasonable probability of success.

Exact synonyms: Fair Chance
Generic synonyms: Chance, Probability

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporting Chance

sportfishermen
sportfishing
sportfishings
sportful
sportfull
sportfully
sportfulness
sportfulnesses
sportier
sportiest
sportif
sportily
sportiness
sportinesses
sporting
sporting chance (current term)
sporting dog
sporting goods
sporting house
sporting houses
sporting lady
sporting life
sporting man
sportingly
sportive
sportively
sportiveness
sportivenesses
sportless
sportlike

Literary usage of Sporting chance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1916)
"... Ill THE sporting chance THE trail began to rise to the tree-covered "bench." It twisted as it rose. Those above called cheerfully to those below. ..."

2. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1914)
"And perhaps he may win through ; there is the chance—" the sporting chance." These things can be done, and are done—a victory snatched by- daring whilst men ..."

3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1918)
"It was a sporting chance, and a good one at that, so far as we could judge. You don't get a good sporting chance every day of your life. Poor old Jim, here, ..."

4. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"With his rival a nonstarter, Sunfire would represent no end of a good sporting chance. In that event my tip would be to back the chestnut three-year-old. ..."

5. Let Us Go Afield by Emerson Hough (1916)
"I would not give a snap to take game fish in any way but on a good rod, giving them a sporting chance and myself sporting experience as well. ..."

6. The Technical World Magazine (1910)
"The cashier wasn'ta diamond expert but he was willing to take a sporting chance on Huddleston's find and offered fifty cents for the three stones. ..."

7. America's Duty as Shown by Our Military History: Its Facts and Fallacies by Leonard Wood (1921)
"These brave troops were not given a sporting chance, nor will our troops ever be given a sporting chance unless we look a bit ahead and unless we shape our ..."

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