INCIDENT in a Sentence

Learn INCIDENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

220 example sentences for INCIDENT, such as:

1. Now you mention it, I do remember the incident.
2. I promised never to mention the incident again.
3. The incident left me with a sense of helplessness.
4. They spoke at length, reviewing the entire incident.
5. The incident on the frontier touched off a major war.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCIDENT
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incident
 n.  usually minor event or condition that is subordinate to another; event; happening
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
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
3  He crumpled the paper up and said nothing to his daughter, but the incident struck a chill into his heart.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
4  The murder of Stangerson was an incident which was entirely unexpected, but which could hardly in any case have been prevented.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
5  About this time there occurred a strange incident which hardly anyone was able to understand.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
6  As he spoke thus, an unexpected incident changed the fortune of the day.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
8  The pedestrian noticed nothing just now, and a clue to her abstraction was afforded by a trivial incident.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
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.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
10  At this point in their experience, however, an incident helped her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool
11  Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it to affect your life.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
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
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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
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
15  It was gone, however, and the incident appeared to make the worst impression upon his mind.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
16  They spoke at length, reviewing the entire incident.
17  This unpleasant incident detracted from our enjoyment of the evening.
18  The incident brought the problem of violence in schools into sharp focus.
19  She decided not to include this incident in her summary of the day's events.
20  A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident.
21  She did not specify precisely how many people were involved in the incident.
22  The incident left me with a sense of helplessness.
23  The incident on the frontier touched off a major war.
24  The incident remained etched on her memory for years.
25  I promised never to mention the incident again.
26  Now you mention it, I do remember the incident.
27  The incident didn't even rate a mention in the press.
28  The movie is based on a real-life incident.
29  After nearly falling twice, she managed to make it to the top of the cliff without further incident.
30  The incident sparked off a whole series of events that nobody had foreseen.