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Example sentences for: accident

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After his death in a skiing accident, the pop-singer-turned-congressman is elevated from a "hen-pecked, dim bulb" (Jill Lawrence, USA Today ) to "a symbol of the American capacity for reinvention" ( Newsweek ). Many critics conclude that Bono was not as buffoonish as his public image, which they claim he self-consciously cultivated to advance his career.
An Italian designer observed that a nation’s cars are like its people: Scandinavian and German models are solid, strong, and reliable, built to resist an accident; Italian cars tend to be more fragile, but slick and spirited, built to avoid an accident.
But then, this is what happens when you have an accident with a chainsaw.
(There is no suggestion at their entries that Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, or Louis Armstrong were black, but, while no direct mention is made of Bessie Smith's color, the “encyclopedic” information--in a six-line entry--yields the intelligence that “She died from injuries received in a car accident, reportedly after being refused admission to a `Whites only' hospital.”
The story notes that some types of accidents that used to plague airlines just ten years ago, such as wind shear and midair collisions, have become much less common, but accident rates for approach and landing remain high.