experience
Usage
What is another way to say experience?
The verb experience implies being affected by what one meets with: to experience a change of heart, bitter disappointment. Undergo usually refers to the bearing or enduring of something hard, difficult, disagreeable, or dangerous: to undergo severe hardships, an operation.
Example Sentences
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Presumably, those who could afford the intimidating ticket and parking prices at SoFi Stadium considered the experience worthwhile.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2026
A near-death experience with malaria at age 29 put Musk on a path looking for bigger meaning in life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
Surfboard shaper Timmy Patterson told the Orange County Register he survived a near-death experience after being caught inside a set of up to 20-foot waves at a remote break off Dana Point.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2026
She was left traumatised by her experience, she says.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026
It was quite an experience for the Incorrigibles to hear this spellbinding story, especially since it was about them.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing experience
"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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