Read full poem →Banjo had merely struck, accidentally, a pretty thing
again, but it seemed very wonderful to his pals, as if a
Dictionary Entry
In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.
In a Sentence
“He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.”
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Common Phrases
. accidentallydiscovered accidentallykilled accidentallyshot accidentallymet accidentallydropped accidentally
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Poetry examples for “accidentally”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →again No. 17, st. ix, and 39, line 10. I would have cor-
rected this if the euphony had not accidentally forbidden
the simplest correction.
Read full poem →circumstances of the peruser the first passage in either of the two pages
that he accidentally fixes his eye on. It is said, that king Charles
the first, and lord Falkland, being in the Bodleian library, made this
Read full poem →resolution, that he despatched one of the aggressors; whilst a gentleman,
accidentally passing that way, interposed, and disarmed another; the
third secured himself by flight. This generous assistant was a disbanded
Read full poem →other of the more recent editions, which have substituted _winds_.
Whether the change was made as an amendment or accidentally, we do
not know;[10] but the original reading seems to us by far the better
Read full poem →Richard, b. Mar. 26, 1667; accidentally killed in ifs.