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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She said her experience was extreme and she felt she did not have anyone to talk to.
From BBC
Over the Christmas period he said, for the first time in his experience, there were two days where no mail was even sorted in his delivery office.
From BBC
“I like it if people can say, ‘I never met anyone like him,’ and by that they should mean that it wasn’t an unpleasant experience.”
From Los Angeles Times
Edward is also now receiving counselling to work through his experiences in the church.
From BBC
Record CEO turnover at U.S. public companies has put the biggest class of incoming chief executives in years at the helm of massive enterprises—and the newcomers are younger and less experienced than before.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
