Definition: 1. Without advance planning. 2. In an incidental manner. 3. Without intention; in an unintentional manner.
Use 'accidentally' in a sentence:
1. While cutting into the bones of the man, Zack accidentally releases a deadly fungus, which causes the team to be quarantined over Christmas.
2. Train doors have handles on the inside. They are stiff so that they cannot be opened accidentally.
3. Perhaps not accidentally, in 2016 reading scores were the lowest they have ever been since 1972.
4. She accidentally knocked the glass off.
5. He accidentally electrocuted himself.
6. She put her hand accidentally upon the tapestry near her, and then sprang back, feeling quite startled.
7. They accidentally unearthed some ancient relics.
8. Originally from South America, the snails were accidentally introduced into the Ebro Delta by Global Aquatic Technologies, a company that raised the snails for fresh-water aquariums, but failed to prevent their escape.
9. Accidentally or on purpose, many of them are discharged into streams and lakes.
10. She accidentally swallowed a glass bead.
11. Later that day I was horsing around with Katie when she accidentally stuck her finger in my eye.
12. As I turned around, I accidentally hit him in the face.
13. You accidentally reveal to the entire company what menu you would prefer at the staff Christmas dinner.
14. We had everything organized for Bruce's surprise party, but Kate accidentally spilled the beans to him at work.
15. You accidentally reveal to entire company what menu choices you would prefer at the staff Christmas dinner, or what holiday you'd like to take .
16. In traditional voting, one major source of inaccuracy is that people accidentally vote for the wrong candidate.
17. For example, I am a bird flying in sky, you are a leopardin forest. We just fall in love accidentally.
18. Every time you make a change to a file, you run the risk of accidentally making more mistakes.
19. The paper accidentally printed the victim's address, then compounded their error by printing her name the next day.
20. I accidentally found a boy was making beautiful cards in the street.
21. He was careless and his rifle went off accidentally.
22. You accidentally like leaned into the steering wheel or something like that.
23. He accidentally found that the desk clock did not swing its pendulum.
24. My friend was thrown out of his apartment for accidentally breaking a window.
25. One day, they accidentally heard on the radio the story about the dolmens on the Caucausus and decided to go there.
26. Unable to see far, he accidentally turned off the path.
27. He accidentally dropped the cup and broke it.
28. Two People passed by and accidentally knocked over her drink.
29. I accidentally broke a glass.
30. The damage couldn't have been caused accidentally.
31. The calculator was damaged accidentally, and we needed to buy a new one.
32. You write an unkind message about someone, intending to send it to a friend, but accidentally send it to the person you're discussing .
33. You write an unkind message about someone, intending to send it to a friend, but accidentally send it to the person you're discussing.
34. As I was running off the stage, I accidentally knocked over a glass of grape juice that was on a table.
35. They had found, accidentally, that a rare metal, iridium, suddenly became very abundant exactly at the boundary and then slowly fell away.
36. These ranged from "sensory leakage"—where clues about the pictures accidentally reach the receiver—to outright fraud.
37. A policeman accidentally killed his two best friends with a single bullet.
38. Ragwort was accidentally introduced to New Zealand in the late nineteenth century and, like so many invading foreign species, quickly became a pest.
39. Two players accidentally smacked into each other.
40. It appears the names were accidentally erased from computer disks.
41. She accidentally knocked the tea tin off the shelf.
42. You just have to convince him that you are prepared to take a higher risk than he is of accidentally falling off the cliff.
43. He accidentally sliced through his finger.
44. Eurasian watermilfoil, a weed not native to Frida Lake, has reproduced prolifically since being accidentally introduced there.
45. A: I accidentally deleted our photos.
46. They had accidentally damaged a gas pipe while drilling.
47. Deleting an object accidentally and then replacing it with a similar object will lead to unacceptable differences of the enterprise models.
48. She accidentally knocked the glass off the shelf.
49. His hand accidentally brushed against hers.
50. Many dolphins are accidentally killed through entanglement with fishing equipment.
51. She accidentally stepped on his foot on a crowded commuter train.
52. He accidentally sawed through a cable.
53. Ecologists generally define an alien species as one that people, accidentally or deliberately, carried to its new location.
54. Besides, there are smokers who accidentally set fires.