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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The BBC asked you for your tips on making mealtimes a more enjoyable experience.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
He said his experience presenting live television proved invaluable during the audition.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Wrestling with the physics of a school bus-sized prop was a way for the filmmakers—and thus the audience—to experience something closer to a real world, van Hoytema said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The Chapter One gatherings quickly taught me how the long lulls broken up by spurts of passion that I once found a drag were actually as stirring as a religious experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Since I have never eaten in a fancy restaurant before, the experience is bound to be educational,” she thought, with a renewed sense of purpose.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
The first is what they call consumer experience stocks, which “offer exposure to strong secular growth in consumer spending on experiences at undemanding valuations with limited AI disruption risk.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said it was "unacceptable" that so many women were waiting so long for a diagnosis, with their experiences and symptoms "dismissed far too often".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Their conversation explores how Trump makes decisions, how his government is structured, and the fundamentally different way he experiences his second term compared to his first.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026
“I’ve gone on a little walk just to get to know each other, or got ice cream,” Jules said, recounting some recent experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
In other words, variations in opportunities and experiences can affect a child’s skill building and therefore impact their intelligences.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
She also experienced other family members cutting her off in anger over her estrangement with her mom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
For the experienced seagrass seed collectors, buckets soon begin to fill with the tips of stems.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
SpaceX, the company, has experienced setbacks lately, as well.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
That additional mass likely placed them under levels of stress similar to those experienced by other giant sauropods.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
For a brief moment, Duane experienced absolute silence, which was peaceful but also dreadful, because that was the moment that he and the toboggan, so far above the ground below, finally stopped.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
After experiencing the loss of three friends in auto accidents, Assemblymember Tina McKinnor decided she needed to take action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
A widely available antidepressant may provide meaningful relief for people experiencing persistent fatigue from long COVID, according to a global clinical trial co-led by McMaster University.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
The U.S. is already experiencing above-average food-price inflation this year due to factors such as tariffs and severe weather in many major agricultural growing regions around the world, Volpe said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Algeria is experiencing an intense summer heatwave with firefighters also battling several wildfires across the north of the country.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
There are my brothers and me, living on opposite sides of a triangle, experiencing the same things but never together.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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