Definition: 1. Happening by chance; not planned. 2. Associated by chance and not an integral part. 3. Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance. 4. A musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature.
Use 'accidental' in a sentence:
1. In fact, their meeting was not accidental.
2. The accidental effects obtained by candid photographers were soon being copied by artists such as the French painter Degas.
3. Related Factors and Preventive Measures for Accidental Puncture of Blood Personnel.
4. Risk Assessment of River Water Quality Under Accidental Pollution Based on Bayesian Networks.
5. Our meeting in New York was quite accidental.
6. She recorded a verdict of accidental death.
7. I call this accidental complexity.
8. He can face the accidental trouble.
9. But God knows. Nothing in your life is accidental.
10. Our accidental meeting led to our becoming friends.
11. I didn't think our meeting was accidental—he must have known I would be there.
12. Mr Heathcliff followed, his accidental merriment expiring quickly in his habitual moroseness.
13. At least 10 000 children are involved in accidental poisonings every year.
14. Three things tend to spawn accidental complexity.
15. The timing is unlikely to be accidental.
16. You simply communicate photographs and catchy posts to a diverse group of people whom you have "friended" or "followed" based on an accidental interaction.
17. So you could say I was an accidental spy.
18. It has witnessed a rise in accidental drowning.
19. Accidental Public Health Events and Health Information Communication.
20. Destroying the remaining stocks of variola is seen by some countries as the final chapter in eradicating the disease to prevent the risk of accidental release.
21. Nothing in life is really accidental.
22. Analysis on the causes and countermeasures of accidental injury in hospitalized children.
23. Accidental encounter inevitable acquaintance, a smile, sigh.
24. The company lost its advantages due to an accidental leak of its designs.
25. While the government said the fire was accidental, residents of the town alleged it was the handiwork of the security forces.
26. Video: Author's accidental diagnosis.
27. It is now used as a euphemism referring to an accidental instance of indecent exposure caused by a fault in someone's clothing ( especially that of a performer) or by an error made while changing this costume.
28. On the Relationship between Civil Compensation and Work Injury Insurance in Accidental Work Injury.
29. Accidental errors act sometimes in one and sometimes in another direction and by their very nature can't be predicted.
30. It could be accidental.
31. Often the pairings of books and settings have been purely accidental: "Moby Dick" on a three-day cross-country train trip; "The Magic Mountain" in a New England beachside cottage with no locks on the doors, no telephones or televisions in the rooms, and little to do beyond row on the salt pond ．
32. His hand brushed against hers; it could have been either accidental or deliberate.
33. Dorchester County officials apologized for the accidental mass killing of bees.
34. Again, nothing should look accidental.
35. He sped his car off the accidental site.
36. Clinical Analysis of 1376 children with accidental injury.
37. I didn't think our meeting was accidental ─ he must have known I would be there.
38. There is good reason for it.; It is by no means accidental.
39. Some engineering winter construction accidental heating system design and construction.
40. Information System of Accidental Monitoring and Management of Dangerous Chemicals in Suzhou City.
41. In contrast, less than a century later, in 1979, the parents of a three-year-old sued in New York for accidental-death damages and won an award of $750,000.
42. It is a case of accidental death.
43. Some of this is accidental.
44. The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death.
45. Analysis of Modified Calculation of Accidental Background Noise.
46. The rash of accidental shootings underscores how difficult it will be to restore order here.
47. It was an accidental meeting.
48. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
49. The most probable causes of interruption in the past have been accidental damage or breakdown, and these can usually be dealt with expeditiously.
50. More probable is bird transport, either externally, by accidental attachment of the seeds to feathers, or internally, by the swallowing of fruit and subsequent excretion of the seeds.
51. Accidental inhalation of the powder can be harmful.
52. The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an inquiry into "involuntary destruction by fire" indicating they believe the cause of the blaze was accidental rather than criminal.
53. We insure against all damage, accidental or otherwise.
54. Information must be stored so that it is secure from accidental deletion.
