unpleasant experience
Example Sentences
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It was not necessarily a particularly unpleasant experience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
Watching “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is not an unpleasant experience, as it maintains a familiar irreverent tone and a gorgeously morbid and imaginative look.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024
In contextual memory tests, rats with normal memory freeze when they re-enter a room in which they had an unpleasant experience.
From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2024
The council said urinating in the layby created "an unpleasant experience for drivers wishing to stop for a rest, to care for children or for emergencies - the purpose for which the laybys are intended".
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2024
I do not want to remind you of an unpleasant experience, but your sponge bag—remember.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
