prang

Example Sentences

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The TV star wrote on Instagram he had had a "bit of a prang" but insisted things were "all nice and bonny".

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2020

"But unfortunately we didn't prang - we just landed safely…"

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2019

The word can be used to describe any crash — you could prang a dockless scooter, for instance — but Answer Man has mostly heard it used with airplanes and sports cars.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2018

And then, like a driver slowing down to observe the wreckage of another's prang, Andrew Marr made exactly the same gaffe when describing the incident on Start the Week only hours later.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2010

Sorry to say the gun was far too much to cope with following my first ever reportable prang, in a plane I probably shouldn’t have been flying, and I burst into tears.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein