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How to use prang in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Prang means an aeroplane crash. Example: “The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges.”

Examples of prang by meaning

nounAn accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.

  • The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges.1984, Ian Manning, Beyond walking distance: The Gains from Speed in Australian Urban Travel, page 105
  • If people drove like that in Australia there would be constant prangs.1999, Lydia Laube, Bound for Vietnam, page 209
  • The drive host, Mark Day, recalls the sinking feeling as he covered an accident on the Tullamarine expressway and wondered what commuters in Sydney would think about hearing all the details of the prang.2009, Bridget Griffen-Foley, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio, page 90

verbTo crash an aeroplane.

  • “We have to wear good socks and boots,” said one pilot with a grin, “—as we often prang in the jungle, and have to walk home.”1946, Frank Clune, Song of India, page 332

verbTo damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).

  • Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.2004, John Pym, editor, Time Out Film Guide, page 70

nounA type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Cambodia and Thailand.

  • The prang is surrounded by walls, which are in turn surrounded by smaller prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported.1995, Joshua Eliot, Thailand and Burma Handbook 1996, page 216
  • The second platform surrounds the base of the prang proper, whose closed entranceways are guarded by four statues of the Hindu god Indra on his three-headed elephant Erawan.2001, Paul Gray, Lucy Ridout, The Rough Guide to Bangkok, page 119

More sentences with prang

  • Most of them look like they haven't slept for days; they're pranged or pinned, edgy and paranoid.2012, JJ Connolly, Viva La Madness. From the entry pranged
  • He was too small to reach the brake pedal and pranged it into a stobie pole.1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed Of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 243. From the entry stobie pole
  • It was a smart move to start with banger racing, as the crashes, prangs and wallops caused genuine needle.2016 April 5, Michael Hogan, “Drive, review: Vernon Kay's sexed up Top Gear entertains”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry banger racing
  • All right, look, don't prang out.2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda). From the entry bounce
  • Skinner's recent album, "The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living" (Vice), will be surprised (and possibly relieved) that he seems to have stopped "pranging out" on cocaine.2006 June 29, Sia Michel, “Mike Skinner Gives His Vocal Cords an Endurance Test”, in The New York Times. From the entry prang out
  • His name was Bill Sulis and amazingly he had been bowler hatted out of the Royal Air Force for flying a monoplane upside down and pranging it.1979, Oliver Reed, Reed All about Me: The Autobiography of Oliver Reed. From the entry bowler hat out

Meaning of prang

  1. noun An aeroplane crash.
  2. noun A bombing raid.
  3. noun An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.

Full definition of prang

Questions about prang in a sentence

How do you use prang in a sentence?
Prang is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges.”
What is a short sentence with prang?
“All right, look, don't prang out.”
What does prang mean?
Prang means an aeroplane crash.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prang (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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