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"Accident" in a Sentence (31 examples)
The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.
He was still mad about the accident despite his wife's conciliatory words.
Did you actually see the accident?
Did you break the window on purpose or by accident?
I met her by accident.
It is true that he did it, whether by accident or by design.
I found the book by accident.
I found that restaurant by accident.
The excited woman tried to explain the accident all in one breath.
While crossing the street on my way to school, I encountered an accident.
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to die by an accident such as an act of God
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field[…]
There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.
My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
He also objects to the idea of women arising by an accident of nature, preferring the notion that they came about as a 'result of some strong mental impression', and so 'the sex of the progeny would have been settled by the decision of the progenitor'.
c.1861-1863, Richard Chevenix Trench, in 1888, Letters and memorials, Volume 1, Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, / It is the very place God meant for thee; […]
And so with his writing, which he proudly said was a perfect counterpart of his life. Accident played a major part in both.
Beauty is an accident.
Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.
This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea, which is rather the consequence of its being a very ancient site,[…]
If they went through their growth-crisis in other faiths and other countries, although the essence of the change would be the same[…], its accidents would be different.
14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales, These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident, / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!
But as to Man, all the Fruits of the Earth, all sorts of Herbs, Plants and Roots, the Fishes of the Sea, and the Birds of the Air do not suffice him, but he must disguise, vary, and sophisticate, change the substance into accident, that by such irritations as these, Nature might be provoked, and as it were necessitated.
Nonetheless, those who have no evidence of the impossibility of the transformation of accident into substance believe that it is death itself which will be actually transformed into a ram on the Day of Resurrection and then be slaughtered.
It would also follow that God ought to be able to transmute genera, converting substance into accident, knowledge into ability, black into white, and sound into smell, just as he can turn the inanimate into animate[…]
nor can God effect the transmutation of substances (from accident into substance, or substance into accident, or substance without accident).
An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]
We weren’t there long when Karin asked about our dog. When we told her Chris was in the car, she insisted we bring him up to the apartment. I rejected her offer and said he might have an accident on the carpet and I didn’t want to worry about it.
Taylor was our sweet little accident, and we're so glad!
The NTSB report revealed that the accident airplane was a Cessna 172.
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