prang

Example Sentences

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While the first season, released in 2023, followed a row between strangers after a prang in a parking lot, the second focuses on bust-ups between people who are closer to home.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

The TV star wrote on Instagram he had had a "bit of a prang" but insisted things were "all nice and bonny".

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2020

The word can be used to describe any crash — you could prang a dockless scooter, for instance — but Answer Man has mostly heard it used with airplanes and sports cars.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2018

You could have a prang in the car on the way home.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2013

Sorry to say the gun was far too much to cope with following my first ever reportable prang, in a plane I probably shouldn’t have been flying, and I burst into tears.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein