fender bender

Example Sentences

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“At worst it would have been a fender bender, and most likely it would have been a clean miss.”

From Seattle Times

The company also can differentiate itself by doing online software updates so that customers understand how their vehicle is changing, and it needs to keep service customers so if they have a fender bender or a problem develops in four or five years, they can stay within a simple Ford system, Farley said.

From Seattle Times

I only drove at extremely low speeds, so that any collisions with other vehicles would result in no more than a fender bender, and stuck to places that had little to no pedestrian traffic.

From Slate

The video of Ghaisar’s shooting paints a clear and complete portrait of a pair of hotheaded officers who needlessly escalated a fender bender on the George Washington Memorial Parkway into a fusillade of bullets aimed at the head of Ghaisar, a 25-year-old accountant with no criminal record.

From Washington Post

It was Ghaisar’s own car that was rear-ended, lightly, in the fender bender.

From Washington Post