INCIDENT in a Sentence
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220 example sentences for INCIDENT, such as:
1. That incident will surely bring on a crisis.
2. His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident.
3. The incident caused discussion among the public.
4. Smith faced total public disgrace after the incident.
5. The article embodied all his opinions on the incident.
2. His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident.
3. The incident caused discussion among the public.
4. Smith faced total public disgrace after the incident.
5. The article embodied all his opinions on the incident.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of INCIDENT
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incident
a. (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
n. a public disturbance
Classic Sentence: (153 in 11 pages)
1 There are few who cannot recall that day and remember the one little incident which heralded the dawn of a new life.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2 He had been as keen as any of them upon the business until this sudden incident had drawn his thoughts into another channel.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
3 He crumpled the paper up and said nothing to his daughter, but the incident struck a chill into his heart.
4 The murder of Stangerson was an incident which was entirely unexpected, but which could hardly in any case have been prevented.
5 About this time there occurred a strange incident which hardly anyone was able to understand.
6 As he spoke thus, an unexpected incident changed the fortune of the day.
7 When the bustle occasioned by this incident was somewhat composed, the chief Outlaw took from his neck the rich horn and baldric which he had recently gained at the strife of archery near Ashby.
8 The pedestrian noticed nothing just now, and a clue to her abstraction was afforded by a trivial incident.
9 Wildeve forgot the loss of the money at the sight of his lost love, whose preciousness in his eyes was increasing in geometrical progression with each new incident that reminded him of their hopeless division.
10 At this point in their experience, however, an incident helped her.
11 Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it to affect your life.
12 And then the incident of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
13 The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every way in my mind without being able to make anything of it.
14 The incident however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible bearing upon the case.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
15 It was gone, however, and the incident appeared to make the worst impression upon his mind.
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1 He gave us a blow-by-blow account of the incident.
2 Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.
3 I pondered the incident, asking myself again and again how it could have happened.
4 The incident caused discussion among the public.
5 The article embodied all his opinions on the incident.
6 His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident.
7 Smith faced total public disgrace after the incident.
8 The military wants to allow only a sanitized report/version of the incident to become public.
9 The victim did not report the incident for fear of retribution.
10 Police have set up an incident room as they begin to investigate this morning's fire.
11 The incident has further increased tension between the two countries.
12 That incident will surely bring on a crisis.
13 His brother was killed in a shooting incident last year.
14 Everyone who was directly concerned in the incident has now resigned.
15 He could remember every trivial incident in great detail.