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Example sentences for "accident"

Lexicographically close words:
accessit; accessories; accessory; accidence; accidens; accidental; accidentall; accidentally; accidentals; accidente
  1. But the Ferrarese make light of the accident by which their poet was born abroad, and claim him exclusively for their own.

  2. That accident destroyed my sleight-of-hand with the dice.

  3. It was not the mere risk of accident or falling.

  4. Yes, but an accident that had left impressed on every fibre of him the feeling of that warm and breathing burden which seemed even yet to rest against his quickened heart.

  5. Word has come from Streatham that my sister has met with a serious accident and is in a very critical condition.

  6. This accident happened from the boat containing them and other two men getting foul under the ship when it was wearing.

  7. As there was no war proceeding at the time, we could not think how this accident had happened, and went to ask the parents where their son was stationed.

  8. Poor Huia grew into a splendid and talented youth, but was disabled by an accident while diving.

  9. Both marriages were very happy ones, though my Uncle Chandos ended his life in a dark cloud cast by the late War--in which he lost his only two sons, and his wife was killed in a motor accident not long after his death.

  10. And now rise, sir, and gain the place of your abode, before accident bring other eyes than my own to be witnesses of your shame.

  11. A dreadful misgiving came over the mind of the youth, and he felt his very hair rise thrillingly, as he for a moment admitted the horrible possibility, that the shock produced by his recent accident had affected his brother's intellect.

  12. She had arrived there quite by accident in the first grief of her widowhood, with a pathetic story, as was commonly told and reported.

  13. She found a niche in the little place which she filled perfectly, though only accident seemed to have made it for her.

  14. He was aware that his cousin was prone to blame some one for every accident that occurred, but it seemed a new way of dealing with a fainting-fit.

  15. She might have gone on all her life till she had died, but for that accident which was none of her doing.

  16. I was climbing the old tower to show a stranger the way, and put my foot by accident upon a bit of the wall that would not bear me; and there would have been an end of me, Lily, and of all my love and all our meetings.

  17. Túkib kaáyu ang íyang isturya sa aksidinti, His account of the accident is complete to the minutest detail.

  18. Dalì dang mutsaptir (matsaptir) ang mga sakyanang gaan basta kusgun pagpadágan, Light vehicles will easily meet an accident if you drive them fast.

  19. A2; b6] for tubers left in the ground by accident to sprout.

  20. Niadtung tungúra pagkadisgrasya níya gipangulbaan ku, That instant when he met his accident I was terrified.

  21. Sa aksidinti tulu ang namatay sa aktu, In the accident three died on the spot.

  22. Allen had attempted to persuade the Court that the prime cause of the accident was simply this, that poor Mr. Barradine's saddle was made by a London firm instead of by him--Allen.

  23. He went out late in the afternoon, and saw a message for him on newspaper bills: "Fatal Accident to ex-Cabinet Minister.

  24. It was the decision I had arrived at before I read of his accident in the paper.

  25. A gun and a hedge--no accident can be more common than that.

  26. He marched off to a post office, and sent his telegram to Mavis: "Evening paper says fatal accident to Mr. Barradine.

  27. Yet it was that trifling accident that saved Dick.

  28. Even in time of peace there may be an accident in an arsenal at any moment--and just as bad an explosion as this one.

  29. Clarence was destitute neither of address nor presence of mind; but an accident happened, when he was just taking leave of Miss Portman, which threw him into utter confusion.

  30. The Leigh men themselves attribute their freedom from accident in no slight degree to the fact that their boats never go out on Sunday.

  31. Nat may have gone into the old mill, bent on investigating, and some accident have happened to him.

  32. Now, you may think that an accident in drawing, but it isn't at all.

  33. Robert Bain recently prevented a serious accident in Public School No.

  34. A few moments later Miss Emma Johnson, the teacher in charge of the class, learned all about the accident on the floor below, and told the children of it.

  35. An accident somewhat like this, in the Greenwich Avenue Public School in New York many years ago, had the most serious consequences.

  36. The brother was killed by accident and the coolie I spoke of, found the fan in his clothing, knowing nothing of it's significance.

  37. He was startled when he secured the packet and left the fan by accident on the black square.

  38. Owing to an accident to the train, they were late in arriving at Liverpool Street station and the Major fumed.

  39. The fate of Greece trembled in the balance, and apparently was determined by the accident of a death and a succession, rather than by any wide-spread patriotic feeling or any settled course of policy.

  40. At which, finding he was by some strange accident not slain, his doublet being perforated, instead of his body, they began to laugh again louder than ever.

  41. The alderman assenting he caught up a torch and was hurrying thither, when an accident stopped him, and indeed carried him a step or two in the opposite direction.

  42. In dangerous accidents always send off for a surgeon immediately an accident occurs, but treat as directed until he arrives.

  43. In more severe cases, however, and where the accident is near an important part, as the eye, or any of the joints, it becomes a desirable object to prevent the approach of inflammation.

  44. As soon as the accident happens, wet the place with juice of sorrel or lemon, or with vinegar, and the best hard white soap.

  45. If you arrive by some accident a great deal too late, do not disturb the party by going in; send your card and an apology from some neighboring place.

  46. Instantly, on the alarming accident taking place, put a tea-spoonful of common salt in your mouth, which will instantaneously not only kill the wasp, but at the same time heal the sting.

  47. Mrs. Lilly could never sleep until he was safe in her arms, and his life knew no cross until after the accident to Katharine Kirk, who became, in her turn, the pivot round which the family revolved.

  48. It was through a sad accident that one of the Lilly children turned into a regular little angel.

  49. You can't think how I pitied you, Walter, in that accident about Paton's manuscript.

  50. It so happened that at a game of cricket Walter by accident had received a blow on the knee from the cricket-ball bowled by Franklin, who was a tremendously hard and swift bowler.

  51. Bullied, teased, and persecuted by the few among whom accident had first thrown him, and judged to belong to their set by others who on that account considered him a boy of a bad sort, he was almost friendless at Saint Winifred's.

  52. You know that mischievous little Penkridge," said Kenrick; "he nearly had an accident this morning.

  53. It is not an accident that the Elector has assigned him a post which must necessarily bring him into conflict with his passions and the demands of his blood; the sovereign does it purposely in order that he may learn to control both.

  54. Neither was it altogether an accident that young Hermann was drunk at the most important moment of his life.

  55. If he had met with an accident they would have heard of it by now.

  56. She sat for a long time motionless, hearing no word of all that Valentine spoke to her--not even when he tried to prove that Apollonius could not be dead, that he was too careful and too good for an accident to happen to him.

  57. The slater who meets his death through accident stands before the world as an honest man--honest as the soldier who dies on the battle-field.

  58. Well, it was not altogether an accident either.

  59. How easy it is for an accident to happen to anybody, specially to a slater who hovers between heaven and earth like a bird, and yet has not the wings of a bird.

  60. He had heard of the slater's death in Tambach; but he did not know that rumor had confused the names of the two places, and that it was possible for anybody to believe that the accident had occurred to him.

  61. Peter supposed that he owed this only to the accident of Urquhart's presence, since this young man seemed to go about the world ignoring everyone who did not please his fastidious fancy, and Peter could not hope that he had done that.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accident" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.