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Accident in sentence

1154 examples of Accident in a sentence

So, a car accident.
Now you may say, "Okay, so we're eating 500 grams just by accident."
There's no accident in names of these restaurants.
I haven't created it, and it's not happening by accident.
My father had been in a catastrophic car accident, and he died.
Without saying too much about this case, this is a traffic accident, a drunk driver hit a woman.
And for the next 38 years, that accident was the only medically interesting thing that ever happened to me.
When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.
All this to tell you that if my father became a forger, actually, it was almost by accident.
This is Aimee Mullins, who lost her lower limbs as a young child, and Hugh Herr, who's a professor at MIT, who lost his limbs in a climbing accident.
They were silenced by an unfortunate accident of history.
He actually had a car accident.
I mean, it wasn't an accident that I was a rich kid picking on a poor kid, or that Vicky, it turns out, would eventually end up being gay.
But this was, I admit, all an accident.
In 2006, I had a car accident.
You take an event like this, an accident.
If it's an accident, you wouldn't say that someone did it.
If it was an accident, you would use a different construction.
So we show the same accident to English speakers and Spanish speakers, English speakers will remember who did it, because English requires you to say, "He did it; he broke the vase."
Whereas Spanish speakers might be less likely to remember who did it if it's an accident, but they're more likely to remember that it was an accident.
By accident.
And you hear cars whizzing back and forth, and you had a horrible accident that landed you in this situation.
We didn't have words like "crowdsourcing" and "radical collaboration" when I had my accident.
You won't do that by accident; you will do that because you are guided to do that.
Back in 1980 when comedian Richard Pryor accidentally set himself on fire during a freebasing accident, I was in Los Angeles the day after it happened and then I was in Washington D.C. two days after that.
Was the Big Bang just an accident?
And it's no accident that we have three children that are spaced three years apart.
In a child, before the age of about six months, if they lose their fingertip in an accident, they'll re-grow their fingertip.
The horse just has another nostril that's developed because of a riding accident.
It's proven to reduce the accident rate in experiments.
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