How to Use accidently in a Sentence

accidently

adverb
  • Garcia stars as a man who discovers his wife cheated on him and accidently kills her.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 Jan. 2022
  • At most, when they were designed, there was concern that an errant aircraft might accidently hit one of the towers.
    — Donald Dusenberry, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Materials will demonstrate how to safely store and dispose of cannabis and cannabis waste and what to do if a child or pet accidently ingests cannabis.
    — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The series will follow Mateo, a man who went to prison for homicide after accidently killing a man when trying to break up a fight.
    — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The video does not show the beginning of the clash when the suspect and a group of three men, including the victim, accidently bumped into each other.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Katz says Glock handguns are designed to withstand almost any amount of jostling without accidently firing.
    — CBS News, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The bottle is vacuum insulated to keep drinks hot or cold all day long, and the leak-proof lid helps prevent any spills if the bottle accidently gets knocked over.
    — Steven Rowe, Verywell Health, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The man, who accidently shot himself while cleaning his gun, was transferred to Fairview Hospital.
    — Cheryl Higley, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
  • One day West accidently disconnected the power supply and then heard something strange.
    — Ainissa Ramirez, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Hawkeyes star guard Caitlin Clark had a scary moment after the game when she accidently was run into by a fan who was storming the court to celebrate.
    — Doug Feinberg, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Around the world, development that has destroyed their nesting grounds and fishing nets that accidently trap and drown the turtles have brought them to the brink of extinction.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 22 Jan. 2025
  • During the holiday season six years ago, a girl accidently knocked her home's elf off the shelf and called 911, which led to the police arriving at her home.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Those with relatively low counts—and the animals—likely consumed it accidently as cinnabar seeped into the soils and environment.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Basco told the news network that an investigation revealed Goulart accidently fired two shots, one which hit his leg and the other hit the door of his police vehicle.
    — Staff Report, NOLA.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Tatum returned to the lineup after playing just 21 minutes in Game 2 because he was accidently poked in the right eye by Durant.
    — Ken Powtak, ajc, 29 May 2021
  • Zegler is competent as Juliet, more like a teenager in a sitcom who has to decide what to wear on a date to the malt shop than a girl who has accidently fallen in love with her father’s enemy.
    — Trish Deitch, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The game was delayed for 10 minutes in the first inning when a spectator accidently fell from the concourse into the visitors bullpen trying to retrieve a baseball thrown to him.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • The 4-year-old boy who died Thursday from a fatal gunshot wound suffered at a Kissimmee home accidently shot himself with a handgun, according to court records.
    — Christopher Cann, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Cubs catcher Willson Contreras accidently hitting Max Muncy in the groin while trying to recover a wild pitch.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
  • Students threatened teachers and their classmates, weapons went off accidently in buildings and even some toy guns looked real enough that alarmed parents called into school offices to report them, according to the documents.
    — Leon Stafford, ajc, 28 May 2022
  • Police said that the preliminary investigation showed the driver accidently pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake, causing the vehicle to slam into the front of the building.
    — Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 16 June 2026
  • If the surgeon accidently nicks a vein or cuts through a tumor in a way that causes a leakage of cancerous cells, the recovery mode is to undock the robot rapidly, cut the patient open, and fix the problem the old-fashioned way.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 July 2022
  • Natalie accidently found evidence on Chacey's computer that her stepmother was cheating.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The second is that the virus was accidently released by researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a scientific lab a few miles from the wet market.
    — Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • At the committee hearing, Stokes disagreed with the police report that states the blade is an exact match for the box cutters at the restaurant and accidently fell into the burrito from the plastic encasing.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • She was promoted to records supervisor after accidently uncovering evidence of a Nazi plot to assassinate all three allied heads of state.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Two of the aircraft accidently flew so close to each other that a classified Strategic Air Command report later called the operation unsafe.
    — Scott D. Sagan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2022
  • For this reason, the Russia expert does not believe that Washington would respond if an American soldier were accidently killed in Ukraine.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In another instance of a child getting a hold of a gun inside a home, a six-year-old was accidently shot in the head by a nine-year-old on Monday afternoon in Jacksonville, Florida.
    — Scott Butler, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The infection can be contracted by accidently ingesting cat feces particles (such as from cleaning a litter box) or eating raw meat, according to the CDC.
    — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2018

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