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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And yet, with his death, “all of that diplomatic, institutional experience” that he did have “is gone” from within Iranian leadership, Radd said.
From Los Angeles Times
The whole experience recalled to Dad the first time an automobile had turned up in this district.
From Literature
‘I’m telling you so that you’ll understand. He was a strong, experienced hunter who knew the mountains -and still the ice river killed him. What hope -what chance -do you think we’d have?’
From Literature
In my experience, the yogurt parfait is often more elegant in name than in execution.
From Salon
The experiences division, which includes theme parks and cruise lines, has become the company’s biggest earnings driver, accounting for $10 billion of the company’s $17.6 billion in operating income last year.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
