freak accident

collocation in English

meaningsoffreakandaccident

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freak
adjective[before noun]
uk
/friːk/us
/friːk/
very unusual ...
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accident
noun
uk
/ˈæk.sɪ.dənt/us
/ˈæk.sə.dənt/
something bad that happens that is not expected or intended and that often damages something or ...
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(Definition offreakandaccidentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffreak accident

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What if because of somefreakaccidentall children conceived from today onward would be immortal?
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However, not long after taking over, he suffered head injuries in afreakaccident.
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Stingley reportedly described it as afreakaccident.
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However, they find it was destroyed in afreakaccident.
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She is sent to jail while her sister dies from afreakaccident.
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The accident was described as afreakaccidentdue to the nature of the injury.
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He has played steadily despite afreakaccidentin his garage at home.
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Cobello later becomes a paraplegic because of afreakaccidentthat occurred in his bathroom.
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In afreakaccident, he was crushed by a horse that was spooked and ran amok.
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She gave up on him after her hair was cut short in afreakaccident.
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I have been given to understand that by somefreakaccidentprivate consent was given for one person to be on the green for a limited time.
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Although no direct injuries occurred from the hurricane, an indirect injury is attributed to the hurricane in afreakaccident.
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Schler manipulates his way into running the circus, taking it over when the owner dies in afreakaccident.
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Eventually afreakaccidentrenders him totally deaf which pushes him into a deep state of depression.
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In what he described as afreakaccident, a scrum collapsed and dislocated his neck, severing his spinal cord.
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Sent to stud in 1989, she died as a result of afreakaccidentwhen she ran into a stud farm vehicle.
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The father landed on a nail puller at the bottom of the stairs, crushing his sternum, which, according to news reports was afreakaccident.
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He had previously worked as a fire performer, and after afreakaccidentsuffered second and third degree burns to his hands, face and chest.
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At the age of thirteen he suffered a serious leg injury from afreakaccidentfor which he was immediately sent to the hospital.
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Before the start of the 2006 season, he suffered afreakaccident, cutting his left wrist whilst trying to open a window, and severing the tendons.
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He led a normal life like anyone else, until one night he was involved in afreakaccidentin which he crashed his car directly into a brick wall.
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