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.
• But all of that is thrown into chaos when Amy is in a car accident that leaves her with a traumatic brain injury.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
• Both Allen and her husband originally claimed that Deal’s death was an accident caused by a game of hide and seek.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2022
• So businesses that greenwash, by design or by accident, are gambling their customers away.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 21 July 2022
• The deletion of those text messages could have been an accident — a screw-up without any nefarious intentions.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 20 July 2022
• Authorities didn’t say how they were involved in the accident, and none of the victims’ identities were released.
  — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
• Rocket tests in Scotland, China and Japan have all ended in accidents.
  — Robert A. Kopack, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
• So self-effacing is Spears’s style that the somber drone at the beginning of this new piece emerges without pause from the ensemble’s tuning, as if by accident.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2022
• Moore said an investigation was completed and officials believe the fire was started by accident.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 22 July 2022
• In his final season of 1967, Uecker was injured in a motorcycle accident and involved in a bar fight.
  — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
• Huntsville police say a man is dead following a shooting that apparently erupted following a minor vehicle accident.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 19 July 2022
• Local officials have increasingly encouraged residents to take public transit, bike and carpool in a bid to reduce traffic and the risk of accidents.
  — Shawna Chen, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
• 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
• And while most of the fish died in the accident, a few did end up surviving.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2022
• Biden's sons, Beau and Hunter, who were 4 and 3 at the time, were injured in the accident but survived.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2022
• 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
• But Newhard hadn’t been caught by accident on that spring day; he’d been buried by choice.
  — Steve Larese, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2022
• 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 South African actress' death was ruled an accident.
  — Chelsea White, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2022
• 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
• In the wake of the accident, the US added new safety devices to its weapons and encouraged the Soviets to do the same.
  — WIRED, 24 Oct. 2022
• One spray handles stains and uses enzymes to get rid of any trace of the accident.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 6 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 4 Feb 2025