accident

Example Sentences

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Also in the Alps, an American tourist died in an off-piste skiing accident at the end of December.

From Barron's

Maritime accidents occur regularly in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago of around 17,000 islands, often due to lax safety standards or bad weather.

From Barron's

The whole thing was sort of a happy accident, she said.

From Los Angeles Times

"Anyone that's had the misfortune of making that journey with any frequency will know it's fraught with delays and accidents and road closures and extreme weather events," he says.

From BBC

After the accident, I lost a decade of my life but I never held on to hate and blame.

From BBC