6 sentences with “odds”

Against all odds, the young woman gave him the most astonishing answer: "Yes".

The odds of suffering an injury like this and not dying are one in a million, he told himself.

Don't get the wrong idea. The odds of being struck by lightning are less than one in two and a half million.

Bronze tended to lessen the odds in conflicts against smaller city-states and kingdoms, because it was harder for them to afford to have entire armies equipped with bronze weapons.

The early Christians did not recognise any social distinctions, which was fundamentally at odds with the entire Roman system, which depended on formal legal separations between social classes and a rigid system of social hierarchy.

Women who, against all odds, had risen to positions of note were constantly attacked and belittled; one example is the inaugural address of a new female scientist at the University of Athens in the early 20th century, whose speech was interrupted by male students shouting "back to the kitchen!