prang

Example Sentences

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And it is the computerised lorries that it will prang.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023

"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

I am always so amazed at the way they flare and touch down—never a bounce or a prang.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein