unpleasant experience
Example Sentences
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“It’s such an unpleasant experience to fly now,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
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
"I can't say I'm glad, because it's been an unpleasant experience, but I hope we can have discussions that lead to protecting people in the future."
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2023
Even if we cannot definitively state whether crabs are capable of more complex emotions, "it makes perfect sense that pain is a universally unpleasant experience," Jensen said.
From Salon • Jul. 3, 2023
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
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