How to Use incident in a Sentence

incident

noun

• Aside from a few isolated incidents, the crowd was well-behaved.
• We just want to put that embarrassing incident behind us.
• Two people were shot yesterday in two separate incidents.
• The bombing caused an international incident.
• Many such incidents go unreported.
• The Rainbow Bridge was closed in the wake of the incident, according to Hochul.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• During the incident, a 14-year-old black male and 22-year-old white man were killed.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
• Of these incidents, at least four in the past two years have resulted in a sunken ship.
  — Naomi Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
• The Obamas were not at the residence at the time of the incident, according to police.
  — Celina Tebor, CNN, 25 July 2023
• One of the teens also posed as a police officer to his wife, though the details of the incident have not been released.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 13 Mar. 2024
• There were no other civilians in the lobby at the time, and officials said no deputies were injured in the incident.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• The drop comes after incidents of antisemitism on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.
  — Janet Lorin, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2023
• As Brown got up and tried to stumble off, Singleton said, the group of five girls, who were walking nearby, saw the incident.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
• All three passengers in the Tundra were also wearing their seatbelts at the time of the incident.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
• Four people have been charged in connection with the incident.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2024
• Audio of the incident was captured on a neighbor’s camera, Gualtieri said.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• Captured by a camera across the street from the incident and across a parking lot, the video ended with one member of the group sprinting away and the rest scattering.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• After the TiVo incident, Cheryl falls in love with someone else and leaves Larry.
  — Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• But there is nothing funny about a tragic incident that did not result in any charges at all.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
• The man faces federal criminal charges for the incident and has pleaded not guilty.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• The alleged incident was made public in September by the Daily Mail.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
• Authorities believe the chainsaw was not running during the incident, and was instead used only to break the glass of the door.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 12 July 2023
• In Campbell’s case, in 2019 the three poachers were convicted, to cheers from observers in the courtroom, of charges related to ten incidents.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• The incident is a near copycat of what happened last month, when McConnell appeared to simply have shut down in the middle of a press conference at the Capitol.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
• Footage from the incident shared on TikTok by @hendryblom shows the animal walking at the truck and then lifting it with his trunk while the driver of the vehicle yells at the enormous creature.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
• The incident could just have easily happened on the old, bumpier, coarser surface as well.
  — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2023
• The worst incident last year involved a robotaxi running over a woman already hit by a car and dragging her 20 feet.
  — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• Those charges stem from an incident in 2016, when a Twin Falls sheriff attempted to pull over Meade’s vehicle for a traffic stop.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 7 Apr. 2024
• Indeed, initially there was no public announcement of the deadly incident, which occurred in the village of Zarichne, about 20 miles from the front line.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• In a series of posts last month on X, formerly known as Twitter, Glanville also pinned the blame for the incident on the show’s producers and on the consumption of alcohol.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024