bad experience

Example Sentences

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“If you have status on an airline, they are more obligated to give you something if you have a bad experience, because they do care about that,” she said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

If you've had a bad experience you might be tempted to avoid an awkward conversation at the restaurant and wait until you get home to complain.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

Circle Jerks became the first artist to sign with Trust Records, despite Morris’s prior bad experience in which his band lost out on royalties.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

Cued-fear memory is evident when rats freeze in a new environment when they hear a sound connected to that previous bad experience.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2024

Now it occurred to him that Frank might have had a bad experience with fire.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan