The phrase "accidentally using" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an unintentional action involving the use of something.
Example: "I found out that I was accidentally using the wrong software for the project."
Alternatives: "inadvertently using" or "unintentionally using".
Speaking of replacements, moments after yesterday's contest went up and our eager in-boxes went suspiciously unfilled for longer than usual, it occurred to us that we'd created perhaps the most impossible covers contest ever, "accidentally" using British book jackets for most of our selections, which is, I mean, just pretentious on our part.
We must have been accidentally using a special New Year 1990 remix.
Similarly joyous was Benedict Cumberbatch accidentally using an offensive word when trying to say something nice.
The tongue-in-cheek punchline to the ad, made by agency Creature, features a proud builder paying huge attention to detail in fixing up a palatial baby room – but accidentally using a pink colour scheme.
Perhaps the most endearing of his characters is Guan Yongxing, better known as Little Guan, who as an 11-year-old suffered social ostracism after accidentally using a piece of paper with "Long Live Chairman Mao!" on it to wipe herself in the bathroom.
Pulling an all-nighter for a tight deadline, braving the underground on a hot summer's day, accidentally using that dodgy milk in the back of the fridge - these are all things you can look back on fondly one day and reminisce about with your co-workers.
Matthew Winney, an English student at the University of Leicester, says: "When we were looking for a house we accidentally used a black-listed letting agent who showed us around a seven bedroom flat above a Polish supermarket".
(Tip: Don't accidentally use a C2 for those purposes).
Did a staff member accidentally use this card and, if so, how often does that happen?
Turnbull is not the only star to have accidentally used the word live on air.
Congress intended an exemption for citizens, "but accidentally used the term 'alien,' " the preamble says.
