By sheer good fortune, the missile soared almost straight and exploded while it was in plain view of the entire crowd.

That was bad enough, but was sheerest good fortune that it wasn't worse, and no one made any mistake about that.

It may be the symmetry, or it may be a sense of sheer good fortune.

He managed to escape it by sheer good fortune.

Magdalen was a mere undergraduate girl permitted on the digging by sheer good fortune.

It was only the sheerest good fortune that he did not see us.

This kingship comes to me by sheer fortune, but I daresay none other is more experienced in the role.

It was sheer good fortune that I happened to have slipped back in the stacks to commune with myself, and heard you choking!

By sheer good fortune, I was witnessing up close a politician's rise.

What good would a winner such as this clubber be for the tribe, whose decisive blow had been sheer fortune?