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Sentence Examples These are the folks who, either by accident of birth or mischance, are sufficiently different from the rest of us to attract attention. Art won a race by accident when the three leading aircraft pulled up and out of the race after miscounting the number of laps. Most of my friends have entered my life by accident and stayed there by worth. It was introduced from North America either by accident or design from Victorian times. Gogol came to have his name by accident, but that accident set in motion a series of events that would demarcate the history of a family. Renee Geyer enjoys a career that's spanned three decades but it all began by accident. I found them by accident on a Sunday morning when I was undressing him at home to give him a bath. In between the sorts who commit the 'benign' and 'malign' forms of plagiarism are those who do it somewhat by accident or out of sloppiness. I discovered the owls by accident one day, when I climbed into the hayloft of my grandfather's old barn to play on the bales. Networks can be unsecure, laptops are easily stolen, personal data can be exposed by accident. They say on the Row that no one is there by accident, and nothing happens without a reason. Of course, the chances of this happening by accident are literally a hundred million billion to one. Unfortunately, I didn't get to read it on my commute uptown today because I left it in the living room by accident. Their first attempt on goal, some half an hour into the match, was more by accident than design. Potter wanted to twist this plot around, and have a much more diabolical character accomplish the same thing by accident. Anyone might make a lucky cast and hook a quality speckled trout almost by accident, but super-sized specks rarely are duped. And bullfrogs are just one of a number of amphibian species people have moved, either by accident or for some intended benefit. The assailants were possibly in the building and the bodyguard came upon them by accident. They discovered this entirely by accident, when a fire devastated their home. Detectives, who are still hunting the gunman, believe the shot may have been fired by accident. Show More Sentences Rather in keeping with the tenor of the match, one of the most significant developments happened by accident. The other issue Jon raises is knowing whether people were shot by accident or on purpose. Liverpool have stumbled into next season's Champions League almost by accident. That was the one I actually tried watching, but I kept missing episodes by accident. The family were involved in a road-rage nightmare after wandering into Ilford by accident. But when Santa leaves him an extra present by accident Julian realises he will have to give it back. Today I managed to fulfill one of my lifes ambitions, and almost by accident. I got into recruitment by accident and stayed for 11 years before setting up Kite. I might have pulled my front brake by accident, which is why I went over the front, but I don't know. He tries to put his hand on her knee but, afraid of seeming too forward, pretends he's done it by accident. I only discovered it by accident, and I have been driving like the deuce to overtake you. Quite by accident, Weir had stumbled on something so fulfilling that she devoted hours of her spare time to it. In truth, it was more by accident than design but it was a lucky chance which established his fame and fortune. The orchestra first came to Marlborough last December by accident last year. Mother and son are cast adrift but rescued by Jupiter and, after Perseus has completed his tasks, he kills Acrisius by accident. My daughter pierced her belly button without permission and kept it from me until I discovered it by accident. One way or another, by accident, divine reckoning or human error, an avenging fire is turned against them. The cultivation of witloof was discovered by accident in a dark cellar in 19th century Belgium. Either by accident or by design, Hawks created a rather kooky film instead of the hard-boiled movie that it pretends to be. Quite by accident, my friend had some wuxia novels imported from Hong Kong. Show More Sentences The plot is all about the problems faced by an Indian youngster, Indrajeeth, who lands up in New York by accident. Their experimentation in the past always appeared to work by accident rather than by design. All that credibility and yet Oldham is one musical genius who arrived at his calling by accident. He got the idea after coming across the real LAPD bomb squad office by accident, while researching another book. In our scheme of things it matters not, or it is of no import, whether the people intervene by accident of fate or by way of contrivance. Detectives will need to establish if the insulin played a part in her death and if it was administered in a criminal act or by accident. And, Ben, she came to this position of enormous influence and power by accident. Lots of people are starting to suspect that's by design rather than by accident. But at last his schemes have backfired and, quite by accident, he has produced his most consistent and listenable album in over 15 years. He believes that such feelings developed more by accident rather than by design. Not by accident, he used Harrison's chronometer and lunar distances to calculate longitudes accurately. She had for the past three years protested her innocence, claiming that her son had drowned by accident. Some years ago, while trekking over the peaty moorland of the Western Isles, I stumbled upon it quite by accident. Gary helps his local Australian Rules football team win the championship by accident. When I started to take photographs they were all ghastly, except by accident. Patiently, he told me how he got into what we now call stand-up comedy by accident. If your tooth is damaged by accident then the pulp may be affected and get infected. It was a mammoth task, especially considering he discovered the place only by accident. The trouble is, of course, this doesn't happen by accident at all, and the margin for error is huge. The arguments of both are based on the fragment of an ancient text, preserved by accident in a remote province. Show More Sentences I especially love it when there is no meaningful symbolism and the inclusion of something pivotal was entirely by accident or an after thought. If a man shoots another in self-defence, or under gross provocation, the death is not caused by accident. Despite reading menus and ingredients lists carefully, it is easy to eat a problem food by accident. In 1984, by accident, he found a title deed in the archive of a trade association. The photos came into his possession by accident and he thinks they may never have been published. Whether by accident or design, McKinven could be about to find that life begins at 40-or at least begins again. Her parents told police that she explained to them she had swallowed the liquid by accident, believing it was something else. There is a childlike quality about him, as if the years caught up with him only by accident. Most of the cheesemakers I spoke to seemed to have produced their cheeses almost by accident. The tragedies caused by accident, human error and carelessness have become the most significant in the early history of the region. Quite by accident the diva provided the psychological model of gay militancy. Basically what I did was make this amazing discovery and I stumbled on it quite frankly by accident. She advised the jury of three options death by accident, misadventure or an open verdict. I grasped the bar tightly in my fists lest I flew off by accident. You will, by accident listening to the show, become an expert-not-really in matters of arable farming, organic crops, and milking. Every now and then by accident I meet people who do my walks, and out on the bike the other day I bumped into a couple who recommended walks Wetherby way. She told the Citizen she became a goalkeeper more by accident than design. He became a singer by accident after getting on stage to sing at a club. In the film, Gary and Jack meet more or less by accident when they steal a car and head off on the back roads through outback New South Wales towards Sydney. It began as a longish, handwritten short story about a man who finds a great deal of money by accident and who subsequently sees his family torn apart by greed. Show More Sentences We do not yet know if the victim was run over deliberately or if the incident occurred by accident but at this stage, the death is being treated as murder. If a macrobiotic diet is healthy it is by accident, since foods are selected not for their physical or nutritional qualities, but for their metaphysical properties. That's why they drive inconspicuous foreign sports cars at high speeds while drunk on malt liquor, taking down telephone poles and innocent children by accident. She seems to stumble upon her marketability these days almost by accident. The highlight of the garden party was that an angry swarm of bees, whose beehive had been disturbed by accident, swooped down on the assembled guests. Some idiot, either by accident or with purpose, had misprinted it. The cuts had been by accident by falling on a metal object after which he then washed the wound with the available water. The Qur'an states the spilling of another Muslim's blood is forbidden, unless by accident, in which case the guilty party should pay blood money to the victim's family. A mover can underquote you on purpose or by accident then claim for extra money because the end volume of the consignment doesn't correspond to the volume quoted. There are moments of People I Know that almost play as satire on life in NY, but even those are rendered ineffective by the unshakeable feeling that they happened by accident. Occasionally, as if by accident, Nora's daughter Beth would turn up, a bit weary from the sea and slightly out of sorts, and Nora would do her best to get her seaworthy again. I practically lost my virginity by accident and I was a late starter. Prehistoric settlers probably drifted here by accident, blown from the coast of France by the north wind, their descendants creating a rich Bronze Age culture. When they come to our notice, therefore, it is mainly by accident. It may be that just by accident or happenstance this has come to be. His Chinese work stints started purely by accident, Miriam recalls. One has to remember that Cambridge is a tiny city and though all these poets don't exactly live in each others pockets we do see each other by accident as much as by design. We should not make cheap heroes of people in opposition by accident or opportunism, but we should seek out the fact and substance in all opinions expressed. One of the more grandiose images, of a crowd swarming up the mount to hear a sermon from Christ as the sun slowly sets, wasn't planned and came about purely by accident. If the parents swear a statutory declaration, the only record of the procedure is the document itself, which may be lost or destroyed, by accident or deliberately. Show More Sentences He had been deformed by accident at birth, and was a hunched dwarf, unable to walk well, and so shy that the King's men thought him incapable of proper speech. What part of her father may have been human in form was entirely obscured by the coruscations of white light which, whether by accident or design, accompanied him. To get around this problem some filter companies allow users to check their junk mail at the end of the month, in case a wanted email has been caught by accident. Far more by accident than by design, they start a small business. We have the elderberry trees on our farm entirely by accident. The 71-year-old nondriver started the car by accident as he tried to get the key out for his wife. At this time the street numbering was changed locally and so the school address, whether by accident or design, became 153 Hammersmith Road. She knew she had thought out loud by accident, but it was too late to re-nig on her comment. The screw propeller was introduced in 1835 by Francis Pettit Smith who discovered a new way of building propellers by accident. When Lancelot's party raids the execution, many knights are killed, including, by accident, Gareth and Gaheris. A PIONEERING treatment for people who have face blindness has been discovered by accident. Like many discoveries, the new part of Ostia Antica was found by accident. Bubble gum was invented by accident in 1928 by Walter Diemer, who worked for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company. Christopher Awdry, for whom the stories were first devised, continued writing the stories almost by accident. Almost by accident, he had invented cyanoacrylates, which were to become known more widely to consumers as superglues. The tot has been returned to his family after authorities in China decided he fell down a squat toilet in Pujiang county by accident. Legear, who plays for Russian club Terek Grozny, reportedly pressed the accelerator pedal by accident instead of the brake. In addition, fires periodically cover some islands, whether by accident or to keep brush down and facilitate seabird harvest. I discovered by accident that the pink flowers of Black Elder in my garden produces lovely pink cordial. The scholar thinks the quote and the parable were spoken on different occasions and only by accident were brought together here. Show More Sentences It is thought the ants touch live wires by accident on exposed terminals, then send out chemical signals to attract others to the spot. I hadn't seen her for years, but I ran into her by accident at the store. The American colonists could always retreat into the mountains, but the land they left behind would most likely be unusable, whether by accident or design. The real prince Dmitry of Uglich, son of Ivan IV, had been stabbed to death at early age, before his brother Feodor's death, either by accident or by Godunov's order. Accidental residents occur occasionally when adults and juveniles of species from other environments are carried by accident into the zone by currents. Somewhat by accident, the best group of survivals of these is from Rome where, together with Constantinople and Jesusalem, they were presumably at their most magnificent. Daniel Schofield, 28, who was just three yards from Roy Hanson, 50, when he fired the 15in arrow, claims he fired by accident and denies murder and manslaughter. If the young bird is unfeathered or covered in fluffy down and has obviously fallen out of the nest by accident, it may be possible to put it back. Patrons routinely download information available in the Virtual Library onto diskettes, meaning the virus could have entered the system by accident. However, tin and lead can be smelted by placing the ores in a wood fire, leaving the possibility that the discovery may have occurred by accident. Examples from Classical Literature I was an eavesdropper entirely by accident, but what I heard might help some. And yet my perhaps sympathy for the girl was birthed by accident, not design on her part. Where by accident the perforation has become enlarged at the end, it has been bushed by setting in a small piece of shell. The saleswoman helped her on with it, and, by accident, it fitted perfectly. Mostly they are caught by accident while drags are set for kingfish or barracuda. It will be Emmeline's house, though they might have named her Sophia, she says, by accident. His father, by accident, neglected to furnish him the money with which to pay his ferriage. A woman got in the way by accident, supposedly, of their getaway from the bank. Because the man who did it, is a wicked brute who by accident is a Jew, and might just as well have been a goy. Some years ago the gypsy moth and the browntail moth were introduced by accident into the New England states. I purchased it a few years ago by accident in a small collection of imperfectly catalogued Shakespeareana. I will not deal with not things at all, except by accident and inadvertence. Those who have by accident passed through it, have not been induced by its appearance to inscribe its name in their note-books. She wanted to catch sweet grass alone and yet as if she had come upon her by accident. The trio of crooks, if such they were, had not joined each other here in lyse by accident. I must have touched the spot by accident, for of a sudden the trinket flew open. I only saw your four turrets in the distance, and strayed in here by accident. That he saw he was beaten, and fell so that he might make a claim that you outran him by accident. We hear then of their copying a quinquereme which had fallen into their hands by accident. At topsail Inlet he ran his own vessel aground, as though by accident. Show More Sentences These Mr. Ranke found by accident in a bundle of old papers. And other memorabilia, which by accident hang about this Lynar. Then, as if by accident, knocked his pewter off the table to the floor. But no indemnification is made for notes lost or destroyed by accident. A varix developed, but was only discovered by accident ten years later. Quite by accident, a week or so later, I discovered that he still saw me home, lurking across the street among the shadows of the mango trees. But Sudbury's College Boreal became a robust venue for a wide variety of events almost by accident. See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. At length, by accident, he found the bibliopole in his shop. But if this be discharged by accident, the eye is irrecoverably lost. I dropped pap's whetstone there too, so as to look like it had been done by accident. The selection of experts by the non-expert can be wise only by accident. Croydon church, like nothing else in the town, became modern by accident. The Swiss Guard stood firm, and, possibly by accident, a fusillade began. He is a draughtsman and an illustrator only on occasion and by accident. The matter had come up by accident, and would now, probably, drop away. It was a humble establishment, kept by a good man from Rouen and his wife, that Philip had discovered by accident. The Vernon Hotel stood, as if by accident, in the corner of a square in Belgravia. I came here partly by accident, and have loitered from choice. An' as he was a-gettin' under way, didn't the fond husbands get left astern-like in their sampan, as it might be by accident? Show More Sentences They were both so overjoyed to see me, so proud to see me, so touched by my coming to them, so delighted that I should have come by accident to make their day complete! I came to it by accident, and without any manner, of preoccupation in The Cossacks, one of his early books, which had been on my shelves unread for five or six years. When he did not show himself, he betrayed his presence or his passing by accident, comic or serious, for which the general superstition held him responsible. Find more words! 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