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.
• Of the 86 workers on the bridge at the time of the accident, only 11 survived.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 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
• 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
• The beloved actor died at 40 years old as a result of injuries sustained from the accident.
  — Andrea Mandell, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023
• 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
• This one has room for a name or phrase that’s specific to you, and can be thrown in the washing machine if there’s a rogue accident or spill.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
• Observers stationed much farther from the accident fled and left Palmieri and the caretaker for dead.
  — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2023
• But what the defense tried hardest to hammer home was that the shooting was nothing but an accident.
  — Maureen Maher, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024
• Their only hope is the Mayday call Spencer barely got out before the accident.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• The accidents are believed to have been caused by slick roadways from early-morning rain.
  — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023
• Back in 2021, James lost his nose, lips, chin, front teeth and left eye after an accident while working as a high-voltage lineman.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Following the death of a girl at Lars’ school, the boy has a mysterious accident, but refuses to talk about it.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Aug. 2023
• Now, the society’s growers try to keep the starter away from other starters so microorganisms don’t get mixed in by accident, the website said.
  — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2024
• By and large, it’s accepted that a person who causes a fatal traffic accident while in the grip of a seizure should not be charged with murder.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Brownstein and Tucker had been working on a new Sleater-Kinney album before the accident; many of the songs had been written.
  — Lisa Tozzi, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• In addition to Beaudette, an unidentified minor in the Toyota was injured in the accident as well.
  — Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2024
• In the wake of the accident, Bloore credits his passion for watch collecting and the watch community for saving his life.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2023
• Amy Grant is back on the road after a terrifying bike accident in July 2022 that left her with a brain injury, and the Christian pop star opened up to E!
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
• William’s mother, Princess Diana, died in a 1997 car accident while attempting to evade paparazzi in Paris.
  — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• More than 1,500 people lost their lives in the accident, and the Titanic became the most famous shipwreck in history.
  — Sabrina Shulman, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
• When saving the life of young girl Kiki in an automobile accident, Michael begins to forgive himself for the death of his son.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024