Want to use Accident correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like happening or occurrence.
Accident in a sentence
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Accident meaning
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
Synonyms of Accident
Example sentences (20)
A 52-year-old woman was taken to hospital after being injured in a hit-and-run traffic accident, Yeniduzen reports.
A48 crash survivor Sophie Russon has left hospital for the first time since the horror accident, her mum has revealed.
A budding tennis star from New York who performed the coin toss for the 2021 US Open final has died in a car accident.
According to Abubakar, the accident occurred around 11pm on Sunday at Malisa village in Gwandu LGA of the state.
Accident and emergency departments in both York and Scarborough have also been under huge pressure, he says.
A58(M) Inner Ring Road Eastbound partially blocked, slow traffic due to accident after A58 Wellington Road.
Aaron Carter’s cause of death has been listed as an accident on the rapper and singer’s autopsy report.
According to Gardaí, the accident took place on the N69 Glin to Tarbert Road in County Limerick at around 10pm yesterday evening.
According to current reports, at least 18 people, including children, have died in the accident.
The accident was caused by unauthorised tests being run before accident-preventing modifications had been installed.
You have Ten days (10) to report the accident, IF it wasn't reported to law enforcement at the scene of the accident.
Nayan Miah, the railway worker on duty when the accident occurred, was fast asleep when the accident took place.
The injury is caused by a sudden jerk such as in a road traffic accident but may also occur in other types of accident.
A car crash where two people died and police didn’t visit the scene for three days is being scrutinised at a fatal accident inquiry this week.
Accident doctors who work under medical trust should also be a consideration in getting an accident doctor.
A bunch of plastic flowers is seen at the scene of a passenger bus accident in Mestre, near the city of Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.
Behind life and auto insurance, accident, work-related accident, fire and transport insurance were the largest contributors.
He ruled out accident saying accident does not have the “hallmarks of concealment of a criminal act”.
One Fulani by name Alima Mumuni Ajaagi, whose left leg got broken in the accident, also lost her 2-year old child in the accident.
Traffic accident w/o injury: Officer responded to a motor vehicle accident involving three vehicles.
Phrases with accident
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with accident
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the accident 91×
- an accident 44×
- accident and 15×
- car accident 12×
- accident in 12×
- accident at 12×
- accident on 12×
- accident that 9×
- road accident 8×
- accident but 7×
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