How to Use accident in a Sentence

accident

noun

• The accident happened when her car slid on a patch of ice.
• He was injured in an accident at work.
• Their meeting was an accident.
• Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the accident.
• Williams died last night after a wrong way car accident.
  — Staff Reports, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2023
• After a car accident that wrecked the front of her vehicle, many of us thought that would end her road trip.
  — Ronny Maye, Essence, 19 Apr. 2024
• The South African actress' death was ruled an accident.
  — Chelsea White, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2022
• Chernobyl once brought tourists to Ukraine to see the site of the worst nuclear accident in history.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024
• Tanya Tagaq, another artist pushing throat singing into the ether, is self-taught almost by accident.
  — Kate Nelson, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
• It’s not by accident that this Italian farmhouse near Rome seems to ooze antiquity and charm.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• The vehicle involved in the accident, possibly a white sedan, left the scene and has not yet been located yet, police said Wednesday.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 Dec. 2022
• That first day set off a search for identity — his own and that of the French Québécois — that, almost by accident, eventually launched his career.
  — Norimitsu Onishi Renaud Philippe, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• Since then, the agency has not just fallen further behind but even uploaded several hundred thousand nonpublic forms by accident not just once, but twice.
  — Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2022
• Law enforcement officers investigating the accident reported that the weather was clear and the road was dry at the time of the incident.
  — Parker Mancino, arkansasonline.com, 18 Aug. 2024
• When walking outside in the rain, choose open areas or routes to reduce the risk of injury or accidents caused by falling leaves, branches, or electrical hazards, Ascher said.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 19 Apr. 2024
• Of the 86 workers on the bridge at the time of the accident, only 11 survived.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• The accident took place near the border of Gilbert and Mesa.
  — The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2024
• An accident may pave the way for your chance to achieve greatness.
  — Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 26 July 2024
• At the time of the accident, Renner was at his home on New Year’s Day 2023 when his adult nephew’s truck got stuck in the snow.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
• On the way home from the Crenshaw combine, the tire on the team’s bus blew out, causing an accident.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023
• Pamela Milton, 60, of Huntsville, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, police said at the time.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 12 Sep. 2023
• Sims stayed with the injured man while Stearn helped guide paramedics to the location of the accident.
  — Angelika Ytuarte, Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2024
• At first, her mother thought that there had been some kind of car accident on the Silver Bridge.
  — Colin Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
• The launch of the company comes on the heels of a number of deadly accidents on movie and TV sets in recent years.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 24 Nov. 2023
• Elsewhere, the fury seems aimed at the accident of his own birth in backwater Spain.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• Eleven years ago in North Dakota, Shawn Strobl had an accident that would change his life.
  — Mckenzie Andersen, oregonlive, 24 July 2023
• Boeing’s stock price and finances have been hammered in the wake of the Jan. 5 Alaska Air accident.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 June 2024
• The beloved actor died at 40 years old as a result of injuries sustained from the accident.
  — Andrea Mandell, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023
• Rodgers didn’t mention the city of New Orleans by accident.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
• If the accident is too serious to be handled at school, Moreno said, the parents are called.
  — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024