Word Finder - experience

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The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

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It was an experience he would not soon forget.

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An activity one has performed.

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A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.

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The knowledge thus gathered.

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Trial; a test or experiment.

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To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

He has a lot of experience in these matters.

She had no such experience or excuse.

In the first place she had nineteen months' experience of sight and sound.

Let him get language and he gets the very stuff that language is made of, the thought and the experience of his race.

An empty stomach made the experience less embarrassing.

I know your experience must have tried you.

This was a very interesting experience to them.

Seeing Scooby-Doo in cartoons doesn't change our expectations of canine behavior because we have so much experience with real dogs.

Please call me if you experience any other problems.

Learning which ones probably took experience – a lot of it.

The pain faded once more, and the experience became too dreamlike to be real.

Sometimes a new word revived an image that some earlier experience had engraved on my brain.

How could she forget the experience that had effectively doomed her, branded her as his forever?

Maybe his experience would come in handy on their wedding night.

But about this time I had an experience which taught me that nature is not always kind.

It would make for an aggravating experience, if Tim was serious about assigning him to manage the battlefield from afar.

His visions were more than just his death; they were the first-person experience of the torturing and killing of many, many others, as if she were mutilating others.

Shopping was another experience that reminded her how simple life had become.

You've gained some valuable experience about how things can get out of control so quickly.

In the future, every single person will have at his or her disposal the sum total of the life experience of everyone alive.

He was dissatisfied because he knew by experience that if his patient did not die now, he would do so a little later with greater suffering.

Death is the most universal experience possible, true, but it's also the most personal.

Of course my instructors had had no experience in teaching any but normal pupils, and my only means of conversing with them was reading their lips.

The pictures the language paints on her memory appear to make an indelible impression; and many times, when an experience comes to her similar in character, the language starts forth with wonderful accuracy, like the reflection from a mirror.

She believed only the best about people - and had no experience with people like that.

I don't have any more experience hiring people than you.

It was not Napoleon alone who had experienced that nightmare feeling of the mighty arm being stricken powerless, but all the generals and soldiers of his army whether they had taken part in the battle or not, after all their experience of previous battles--when after one tenth of such efforts the enemy had fled--experienced a similar feeling of terror before an enemy who, after losing HALF his men, stood as threateningly at the end as at the beginning of the battle.

It will be the collective memory and experience of the planet.

She has the most experience and she's gentle.

Why hadn't it occurred to her that this might be their first experience on a horse?

One day spent with the blind children made me feel thoroughly at home in my new environment, and I looked eagerly from one pleasant experience to another as the days flew swiftly by.

Knowledge must be based upon experience.

It was impossible first because--as experience shows that a three-mile movement of columns on a battlefield never coincides with the plans--the probability of Chichagov, Kutuzov, and Wittgenstein effecting a junction on time at an appointed place was so remote as to be tantamount to impossibility, as in fact thought Kutuzov, who when he received the plan remarked that diversions planned over great distances do not yield the desired results.

She deliberated over how strange it was to experience Gabriel's emotions, even if briefly.

History, Poetry, Mythology!--I know of no reading of another's experience so startling and informing as this would be.

What does architecture amount to in the experience of the mass of men?

And so, if the railroad reached round the world, I think that I should keep ahead of you; and as for seeing the country and getting experience of that kind, I should have to cut your acquaintance altogether.

He despised them because of his old age and experience of life.

A heavenly experience, if their destination had been different.

Let us take experience as our teacher!

The kitchen of this alternative dining experience uses only stainless steel equipment, and all fried foods are cooked in canola oil.

Judging by the conversation she had overheard yesterday between Darcie and Bordeaux, the woman had lived through quite an experience of her own.

While the warm sun drenched them and there wasn't a cloud in sight, they'd learned from recent experience that mountain weather could blow in misery at a moment's notice and replace the sunshine with drenching, chilling rain.

Given his experience and lauding as one of the most capable strategic battle planners in the Five Galaxies-- the only reason he hadn't been driven out by the Yirkin despite his tiny army-- he found himself learning a tidbit here and there.

Was it something that came natural to him, or did he have a lot of experience riding?

More important, she wasn't going to gain experience by leaving it all to him.

Having worked together, they probably shared an unpleasant experience with a difficult customer.

It laid stress, not on external authority, as did the Jewish law, but on individual experience and inward meditation.

Marryat brought ripe experience and unimpaired vivacity to his work when he began to write novels.

Nothing came of Lord Hardinge's proposal till the experience of the Crimean campaign fully endorsed his opinion.