Sentence examples for accidental sighting from inspiring English sources

The phrase "accidental sighting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an unexpected or unintentional observation of something, often in contexts like wildlife watching or astronomical events.
Example: "During our hike, we had an accidental sighting of a rare bird that we had only read about before."
Alternatives: "unintentional observation" or "unexpected glimpse".

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His best-known novel is probably The Tooth Fairy (1996), in which a boy's accidental sighting of the legendary sprite wreaks havoc on house and home, and his coming of age.

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Ovid and Titian implied no desire in Actaeon's accidental sight of female nakedness.

Almost half of the species (166) are accidental, meaning that they have been sighted only once or twice, and 42 of the species have been introduced, either directly or indirectly (mainly through habitat alteration), by humans.

It follows that the greatest errors of government are those by which the government of a society, because of its excessive concern for the society's accidental progress, loses sight of that which constitutes the substance of the society.

Nielsen portrayed a serious character whose one-liners appeared accidental next to the pratfalls and sight gags around him.

Photographs of Dennis Rodman laughing while watching a basketball exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea, with Kim Jong-un, the leader of one of the world's most repressive countries, may be some of the strangest sights in the history of accidental American diplomacy.

The disaster here isn't a mugging or an accidental invasion of privacy, it's that you'll catch sight of your own reflection and quite rightly hate yourself forever.

And Super Bowl halftime shows aside, often the sight of a black bra strap or the edge of bustier is not accidental.

Or accidental.

Accidental Limousine?

Initially this was accidental.

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