What does experience mean

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experience

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

experience

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a childhood experience

▪ Our childhood experiences make us who we are.

a painful experience

▪ It must have been a painful experience for you.

a positive experience

▪ Working here has been a very positive experience for me.

an experienced driver (=who has a lot of experience of driving)

▪ Young drivers are ten times more likely to be killed on the road than experienced drivers.

cathartic experience

▪ a cathartic experience

clinical medicine/experience/training etc (=medicine etc that deals directly with people, rather than with research or ideas)

depth of knowledge/understanding/experience

▪ I was impressed by the depth of her knowledge.

direct experience

▪ People learn best through direct experience.

do work experience

▪ Why do I have to do work experience?

draw on sb's experience

▪ The books have drawn on the experience of practising teachers.

emotional experience

▪ The funeral was a very emotional experience for all of us.

encounter/experience a problem

▪ You shouldn’t encounter any further problems.

experience a feeling

▪ I remember experiencing a feeling of tremendous excitement.

experience delays

▪ People are experiencing considerable delays in receiving their mail.

experience painformal

▪ Animals caught in the trap experience great pain before they die.

experience

▪ The experience you can gain in a small advertising agency will be very valuable.

experience/encounter difficultiesformal (= have difficulties)

▪ Graduates often experience considerable difficulties in getting their first job.

experience/encounter prejudice

▪ Students with learning difficulties often encounter prejudice.

experience/face discrimination

▪ Government figures suggest that ethnic minorities face discrimination looking for jobs.

experience/suffer hardship (also endure hardshipformal)

▪ Many pensioners experienced hardship paying the tax.

experience/suffer symptoms

▪ I had suffered mild symptoms of asthma as a child.

feel/experience an emotion

▪ Seeing him with his new wife, she felt emotions that she did not want to feel again.

feel/experience joy

▪ He had never felt the joy of watching the seasons come and go.

feel/have/experience a sensation

▪ He felt a tingling sensation down his left side.

gain experience

▪ In her first job, she gained experience as a programme manager.

hands-on experience

▪ a chance to get some hands-on experience of the job

harrowing experience

▪ a harrowing experience

humbling experience

▪ a humbling experience

knew from experience

▪ She knew from experience that exams made her very nervous.

learn from experience

▪ The student will learn from experience about the importance of planning.

moving experience

▪ Attending the memorial service was a moving experience.

out-of-body experience

personal experience

▪ I have had personal experience of unemployment.

practical experience

▪ You have to gain practical experience before you qualify as a solicitor.

prior experience

▪ He had no prior experience of teaching.

salutary experience/lesson/reminder etc

▪ Losing money in this way taught young Jones a salutary lesson.

suffer/experience a recession

▪ The country was suffering a deep recession.

terrifying experience/ordeal

▪ He told her of his terrifying experience.

unnerving experience

▪ an unnerving experience

work experience placement/programme/scheme etc

work experience

▪ She’s well qualified but has no relevant work experience.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

bad

▪ But what happens if work is demonstrably and objectively a bad experience?

▪ Long jumping was a bad experience, and Edwards never distinguished himself in it.

▪ However, invariably, it is not only bad experiences of learning that are committed to memory.

▪ If they had a bad experience, it could be they wish not to speak to us.

▪ Hardness A hard Rottweiler is one who does not allow bad experiences to affect him permanently.

▪ They may have bad experiences from visiting prisons in the past.

▪ As I say I've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had.

▪ The survey examined bad debt experience, credit periods and credit management compared with three years earlier.

bitter

▪ Union attitudes have been powerfully conditioned by long and bitter experience.

▪ Yet he knew from bitter experience that forging such a bond in the late twentieth century entailed experimentation and error.

▪ I've learnt that from bitter experience!

▪ Had she forgotten the bitter experience of her own childhood?

▪ All three, from their different perspectives, and each with bitter experience, saw the dangers of noble egoism.

▪ She knew from bitter experience how treacherous such feelings could be, and the blind alleyways down which they led.

▪ Some of these fears have been forged out of bitter experience.

▪ Many had also learnt from bitter experience that a good education was needed in the continuing battle against colour prejudice.

direct

▪ Such direct experience helps the nurse to develop sensitivity and self-awareness.

▪ She has no direct experience but has heard from other kids that it exists.

▪ In this paragraph we have the basis for Brian Way's philosophy: he is interested in introducing direct experience into education.

▪ Like the Gnostics, he based his spirituality on direct experience rather than on syllogisms.

▪ As the first medical officer of health for Lambeth he gained direct experience of cholera and other water-borne diseases.

▪ She has difficulty with prostitution as something to be understood because she has no direct experience with it-it is beyond her comprehension.

▪ I further suggested that he broadened the scope of the drama lesson by including all sorts of direct sense experiences.

▪ Representational thought is carried out more rapidly than thought through movement because the former is not tied to direct experience.

early

▪ Tell me about your early experience as a dancer.

▪ Language develop-ment, for instance, is particularly dependent upon early experiences.

▪ Fundholding only a partial solution Early experience with the fundholding scheme has shown that general practitioners can be effective purchasers of care.

▪ Most importantly, however, we have found that these traits can be influenced significantly by early and later experiences.

▪ We forget that early experiences of grief must have been communal, and still are in many societies.

▪ Caregivers and families need to recognize that they, too, have been influenced by their own earlier experiences and genetic makeup.

▪ This period has seen a sharp fall in the average rate of growth as compared to the earlier post-war experience.

▪ The impact of this became obvious to me during an early experience with the divisiveness of homophobia.

emotional

▪ It was without end or beginning, paling all emotional experiences into insignificance.

▪ They took subordinates' departures of all sorts as emotional experiences: The difficulty comes when the truly unexpected happens.

▪ These ideas from psychotherapy help our background understanding of emotional experiences in the later part of the life-cycle.

▪ After using the relaxation exercise you then conjure up a positive emotional experience.

▪ It was a very emotional experience.

▪ I think the sharing and the emotional experiences are part of the miracle of Lourdes.

▪ So performing live in the Land of Song for the first time was an emotional experience for Kylie and her relatives.

▪ The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate, although interlinked, parts of the brain.

human

▪ Yet Moore did not think value could only occur in relation to human experience.

▪ Nothing in dance is foreign to human experience.

▪ They can be woven into the fabric of everyday life, the human experiences of trying and failing.

▪ What is to him the heights of human experience?

▪ He is very much alive and kicking, strongly represented in the intertestamental literature, the New Testament and human experience.

▪ How do mouse studies correlate with human experience?

▪ Yet water is strangely ambivalent in human experience.

long

▪ These important nuances are often recognised only after a long and intimate experience of the couple under study.

▪ From long experience I know I will feel a little better in the morning.

▪ The two principals she served under were men coming to the end of their service after long experience as leaders.

▪ So he nominated Derby, praising him for his maturity and long experience in dealing with people.

▪ Union attitudes have been powerfully conditioned by long and bitter experience.

▪ Again, I know this from my long experience of yoga.

▪ In fact, we have 50 long years of experience making business environments sparkling clean.

painful

▪ Breakfast was a painful experience for me.

▪ As with any painful experience, the parents may be much stronger after they have gone through these reactions together. 15.

▪ And there was no bloody bobby there at all. Painful experience taught you when to use an avoidance tactic.

▪ It can be a painful experience for viewing loved ones.

▪ There were times when Rose felt as if she were split in half - an interesting rather than a painful experience.

▪ United could have made it an even more painful experience for Bradford manager Paul Jewell.

▪ Like many, she has her own stock of painful experiences which sometimes affect her present life.

▪ Although a few had had quick and relatively painless births, many had found it a very painful experience.

past

▪ What research has shown is that these tendencies to behave in certain ways are deeply embedded in past experiences.

▪ We also looked at how past experiences affected current relationships.

▪ But Tess, in answer to your question, whatever you do, don't tell your future husband anything about your past experience.

▪ First, we sense the information and then we digest it through past experiences, attitudes, values and beliefs.

▪ We delve deeply into the psyche for memories of past experience and sensation to judge any work of art.

▪ However we don't always acknowledge them in ourselves, perhaps because we have been hurt from a past experience.

▪ Others are noted for continuity with past experience and structures.

personal

▪ However, Marxists distinguish two kinds of dissenting consciousness which can be fostered amongst workers by personal experience and by collective organization.

▪ It challenges you, as a leaded to make change as personal an experience for yourself as it is for others.

▪ This survey of personal experiences, ranging from close combat to literary society, constructs a memorable portrait of the last war.

▪ He later rewrote it to include more personal experiences and a few chapters of background material.

▪ As a personal experience I found it fascinating and stimulating.

▪ Both Abu Nidal and Gandhi were deeply troubled and ultimately mobilized into political action by their personal experiences.

▪ That would suggest a degree of personal experience.

▪ Is it Balzac the individual, furnished by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman?

practical

▪ The half-day courses include two hours practical experience of firing and driving with full instruction on safety and how the engine works.

▪ Indeed many are still advice workers and are thus constantly furnished with very real on-going practical experience to support their tutoring role.

▪ The programme included practical experience in Breathing, movement with apparatus, and movement accompaniment.

▪ The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience.

▪ As a consequence there is no practical experience and no feedback to modify the approach in the design of subsequent estates.

▪ Chamberlain's practical experience of first-class cricket is slim, confined to six matches for Northamptonshire shortly after the war.

▪ Candidates should be conversant with international economic and financial issues and have practical experience using personal computers.

▪ General members will be those without much practical experience of mediation.

previous

▪ His teacher's explanation would help to consolidate his previous experiences.

▪ As a consequence, few of those involved in the training program had had any previous experience in the country.

▪ He noted that the son of a senior Conservative aristocrat had walked into a directorship without previous training or experience.

▪ They also complete an application essay about their previous experiences, which is used as evidence of qualities like persistence and initiative.

▪ A person's previous research experience will obviously determine the level of research which is to be begun.

▪ The central differences among the groups are level of education and previous work experience.

▪ He emphasized that he had chosen ministers on grounds of expertise - only three members of the Cabinet had previous ministerial experience.

▪ She had not asked me of my previous experiences.

religious

▪ He had that resigned helplessness which hospital patients and people in the thrall of religious experience have.

▪ Such a thought finds a corroboration in religious experience and thought.

▪ Scientists themselves have often drawn parallels between the experience of a scientific vocation and certain forms of religious experience.

▪ A visit to the ancient ruins, especially on a quiet weekday, comes close to a religious experience.

▪ Let me take the example of religious experience.

▪ For Crevecoeur it was a religious experience as well as a frightening one.

▪ Art, undoubtedly. Religious experience? outside her range.

▪ The learning is an intense cultural and religious experience.

■ NOUN

work

▪ Information on childhood history, family, peer and work experiences was obtained, as well as detailed information on current circumstances.

▪ My work experience is in a Third World country rather than in the United States or other industrialized country.

▪ Her work experience has been various, including that of Director of an environmental research institute.

▪ She also spent time shadowing health-care professionals and getting hands-on work experience.

▪ They are designed primarily for practitioners who are either currently working or who have previous work experience in the industry.

▪ Knowledge of management principles and practices, gained through work experience and formal education, is important.

▪ The poor showing of school work experience is striking.

▪ He did set out to secure work experience.

■ VERB

based

▪ Sometimes when we project into the future we have a reasonable expectation, based on experience, of what will happen.

▪ When Julie had a home problem, her two best friends at work tried to offer advice based on their own experiences.

▪ There is some scepticism and much caution, based on past experiences.

▪ His judgments were also swayed by preconceptions based on past experiences or even personal idiosyncrasies.

▪ The regulation will be through training and a points system, based on experience gained in mediation.

▪ There is another approach to school reform based on career-related experiences.

▪ Much of this belief is soundly based in experience but part of it is based on wishful thinking.

▪ The curriculum includes an eight-week work-#based experience.

describe

▪ Sibylle Alexander describes her experience as a protagonist in this story with grace and eloquence.

▪ She talked to many patients who described near-death experiences, in which they encountered white light and unconditional love.

▪ Bertinotti described the experience as' a long march in the desert in order to arrive at an oasis.

▪ To describe the experience is not easy.

▪ Words we might employ to describe that experience would include authenticity, first-handedness, liveliness and immediacy.

▪ At supper that night he tried to describe the experience to Kathy.

▪ She wrote a long and moving letter, describing her terrifying experience of being raped whilst on holiday with two friends.

▪ We considered Brooks' words carefully, amazed at how accurately they described our own experience.

draw

▪ These Rape Crisis groups usually draw extensively on the experience and sense of priorities of women who have been raped.

▪ Men have always drawn on their experience in organized athletics to meet the challenges of a competitive workplace.

▪ Gil Benson draws on his experience.

▪ His books draw heavily on his experiences as a therapist.

▪ Also considers the potential for car-free housing, drawing on experience from Bremen, Amsterdam and Edinburgh.

▪ Naturally, most draw on their personal experiences.

▪ Many horse owners today can not draw upon years of experience and therefore rely heavily on advice from others.

▪ So often they bring to their training elements drawn from their own experience of school.

gain

▪ With equipment and a trained mechanic loaned by the maintenance firm Kwik-Fit, students gain hands-on experience as part of their curriculum.

▪ She would treat this as an unexpected opportunity to gain experience in mass-production fashion.

▪ Established in 1978, this group has grown rapidly, and there is considerable opportunity for you to gain management experience.

▪ They are designed to give those not wishing to continue full-time education the chance to gain work experience, training and education.

▪ The promising Belfast youngster has been gaining experience on the international front among the Federation Cup aspirants in Nottingham.

▪ This allows the small company with little planning expertise to gain experience for an outlay at the £100 level.

▪ Here he gained valuable experience and, though occupied with much routine work, commenced innovative research.

▪ She was the one who gained by the exquisite experience, wasn't she?

lack

▪ He entirely lacks financial and business experience.

▪ But because men lack the experience and confidence, infant care training can help.

▪ They lack experience, principle and vision.

▪ Once in office, however, the Clinton adminstration was quickly accused of being too young and lacking in experience.

▪ The view that they lack work experience is contradicted by a substantial body of evidence.

▪ In addition, he lacked experience in the vital sphere of foreign affairs.

▪ Roache and Kolender dismiss Ruff as a well-spoken and nice man who lacks the management experience to be sheriff.

learn

▪ Instead, you can use something like that as a learning experience.

▪ It would be useless to ask him; she had learned that much from experience.

▪ Washington, which has had notification laws on the books for seven years, quickly learned from the arson experience.

▪ But he has also learned from the experience.

▪ Becoming a manager was largely a process of learning from experience.

▪ Of course, you will have already acquired some people skills through an adhoc process of learning from experience.

▪ For many boys, competitive games represent one of their critical formative learning experiences.

provide

▪ Medical appointments in military units were believed to provide useful experience to recent graduates or students, and were much in demand.

▪ The job provided a wonderful experience.

▪ Such an attitude provides the inner experience of conflict for many.

▪ These centers provide education and experiences to apprentices that the individual companies can not.

▪ They act as a bond between people through providing amusement or an experience shared and believed to be held in common.

▪ But in addition we will be providing an interactive experience.

▪ For non-troglodytes, with a penchant for the unusual, the trip can provide a memorable experience.

▪ They provide practical experience in all facets of the funeral service from embalming to transporting remains.

share

▪ This social aspect of reading, of sharing a pleasurable experience, should begin at this stage.

▪ Ask them to share experiences with slides.

▪ It is healthy that people move in and out, and thus contribute to a sharing of experience.

▪ Like DeWine, other lawmakers shared their personal experiences with organ donation on Tuesday.

▪ The event will offer opportunities for partnerships new and old to share experiences and learn from each other.

▪ Participating in the videos are real doctors and patients sharing their experiences.

▪ The conference also included sessions led by local people with personal knowledge of poverty in Preston who will share their experiences.

▪ Other companies had second thoughts after they expressed interest in sharing their experiences.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

chalk it up to experience

first-hand experience/knowledge/account etc

▪ And now I know from first-hand experience it's the wrong approach.

▪ At one time, physical presence was a prerequisite for first-hand experience.

▪ Besides, the people of Waterloo had first-hand knowledge of the advantages of public ownership.

▪ International research tends to involve analyzing international data, rather than acquiring first-hand knowledge about international operations in other countries.

▪ It reflects, often, a first-hand experience of the events it describes.

▪ Millions of people across the world have first-hand experience of what it can do.

▪ Their testimony on it represents crucial, first-hand experience of which those planning for the hospital-based sector must take significant account.

▪ This understanding needs to be informed, up-to-date and backed by first-hand experience, not based on hearsay or second-hand impressions.

outside interests/experiences etc

▪ He has got to ask how things are going at home or about my outside interests.

▪ His outside interests were numerous and varied.

▪ Making a mental note not to let outside interests interfere with her work, she began to inject the puppies.

▪ Now Martin is looking forward to spending his retirement enjoying outside interests which will include travelling, walking and watching cricket.

▪ One sees again and again that such people grow in outside interests.

▪ Others found that the sheer workload of the course left them unable to develop outside interests, such as reading or the theatre.

▪ Some of his many outside interests include reading, theatre and debating.

▪ This would force campaigns to pay less attention to outside interests and more to the people at home.

put it down to experience

the chance/experience etc of a lifetime

▪ Jim assured him that hearing me sing was the experience of a lifetime, but Dad wasn't having that.

▪ There is also the chance of a lifetime for the talented teams who win through to the final.

▪ This was the chance of a lifetime.

▪ We are offering the experience of a lifetime, and it seems to appeal to people from all over the world.

the voice of reason/experience etc

▪ However, while the voice of reason is presently peripheral, its steady hum may well be heard.

▪ It was the voice of reason.

▪ Sadly the voices of reason are overwhelmed or ignored, even though in the long-term they are safer guardians of our values.

▪ Satan does not realise that real freedom is found in obeying the voice of reason.

▪ Whereas Ian would be resourceful and brave, Barbara would be the voice of reason, relating their experiences in human terms.

▪ You could not hear the voice of reason, only the terrible curiosity, insisting that it be satisfied.

with the benefit of hindsight/experience

▪ But let's not get too smart-aleck with the benefit of hindsight.

▪ Hugh Young, fund manager, admitted that with the benefit of hindsight the original launch was not large enough.

▪ If I should wander into the uncharted minefield of personal opinion it is only with the benefit of hindsight.

▪ Neither player took it seriously but, with the benefit of hindsight, both admitted that the offer was probably serious.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ After she retired, Hannah wrote a book about her experiences as a war reporter.

▪ Fran is gaining valuable experience working for her father's firm.

▪ Have you had any previous experience as a construction worker?

▪ I'm glad I had this experience but I wouldn't want to do it again.

▪ I have a little bit of experience working in a hotel.

▪ Living alone has been a good experience for her.

▪ She's very bright and ambitious but she doesn't have much experience.

▪ She has plenty of experience of dealing with difficult situations.

▪ Simulators are very realistic, but they don't compare to the actual experience of flying an airplane.

▪ The job requires five years' secretarial experience.

▪ The job requires two years of teaching experience.

▪ Tonight on Channel 4, young people will be discussing their experiences of racism.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Fourth, it can aid the process of life review, and fifth, it is an enjoyable and stimulating experience.

▪ He has had no experience of democracy.

▪ I get to develop the character and have different experiences.

▪ Meanwhile, each leads us to expect the arms race which experience confirms.

▪ On the contrary, he is still campaigning on his resume and the argument that his experience is what his party needs.

▪ One career academy that had fewer problems arranging work experiences for students was the Health Academy.

▪ Send tips or experiences about working on houses, to Home Work, &.

▪ The regulation will be through training and a points system, based on experience gained in mediation.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

ever

▪ It was the most marvellous feeling Constance had ever experienced.

▪ Now Midleigh realized that no tide he had ever experienced had come close to the fury of the deceptive river.

▪ It was like nothing I'd ever experienced before - so much feeling, so much exquisite joy.

▪ Have you ever experienced the high involvement high vulnerability principle?

▪ I can honestly say it was the greatest thrill I have ever experienced.

▪ Men on both sides of the stream later called the duel the worst they had ever experienced.

▪ I was in more pain than I think I have ever experienced.

▪ Have you ever experienced a similar problem?

never

▪ Just being in the same room as him sent shivers of something down her spine that up to now she had never experienced.

▪ He said he had never experienced racism in swimming.

▪ Evelyn had never experienced such utter despair.

▪ We swept forward, and as we did, there was just an absolute scene of carnage like I have never experienced.

▪ You can never experience the real satisfaction of growing roses well by following a list of step-by-step instructions.

▪ What was happening in the white-washed former warehouse was that people were experiencing things they had never experienced before.

▪ I had never experienced his obduracy before or, if I had, had identified it as something else.

▪ And he discovered that his peers responded to him now in a way he had never experienced at Groton.

■ NOUN

change

▪ Since the war urban Britain has experienced a rate of change unparalleled since the early days of the Industrial Revolution.

▪ That required finding ways for sales people to experience the change in a performance context that mattered.

▪ The banking sector, in particular, is likely to experience change.

▪ To build capabilities, they had to get other consultants to experience change, not just read and think about it.

▪ Protected areas of global importance, including the Wolong Panda Reserve, may experience radical changes.

▪ Few have actually experienced the changes at hand.

▪ Computers for history teaching Computer technology is experiencing rapid change.

▪ You must continually create the performance commitments and contexts that give people a chance to experience change.

difficulty

▪ In another way, however, the difficulties experienced by new courses or fields in gaining acceptance are functional and desirable.

▪ And surely enough, the difficulties he had been experiencing with reality were in time obviated.

▪ Ideally, take another flight straight away so that you can master any difficulties you may have experienced on the first flight.

▪ The fact that it does may underlie a great deal of the difficulty experienced by many beginning readers.

▪ The union's involvement in insurance stems from the difficulties musicians have experienced in getting car or van insurance.

▪ One particular difficulty experienced by the trade with the single-piece gown related to the positioning of the limbs.

▪ The second related to the difficulties experienced by deaf and dumb school-leavers in finding suitable employment and particularly in entering skilled trades.

growth

▪ Economic growth A country must experience economic growth if it is to produce a greater output of goods and services.

▪ The reader might wonder what factors cause a country to experience economic growth.

▪ Retail sales were described as disappointing, but manufacturing and commercial real estate experienced growth.

▪ The leisure sector has experienced phenomenal growth over the last few years.

▪ Forecasters suggested the economy will experience much slower growth this year than previously thought.

▪ In comparison with these industries, retail trade and public administration have experienced limited job growth.

increase

▪ Men, too, can experience an increase in libido once the pressures of work have ceased.

▪ As a result of its total quality management program, a manufacturing firm we worked with experienced a significant increase in business.

▪ C Ingle, Ilford Friends and colleagues, most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance.

▪ Younger age groups are experiencing a rapid increase in the proportion of minorities among their ranks.

▪ Clearly Oswiu experienced a tremendous increase in personal power and prestige following his victory at the Winwaed.

▪ Men also experienced an increase in their hours of work over this period by an average of about 100 hours.

life

▪ Audio visual and special effects will allow visitors to realistically experience life at sea.

▪ Lohr also charged that Medtronic failed to warn her or her doctors that the device could experience life-threatening failure.

▪ For example, we already know the physical laws that govern everything that we experience in everyday life.

▪ The more appropriate mythic admonishment would be, so to live their marriages that in this world they may experience life everlasting.

▪ She was taking her revenge now on Bathsheba for the difficulties she had experienced in her life.

▪ Through dance we experience our own bodies as alive, and we experience the life that flows rhythmically through all creation.

▪ She had her first operation when she was 21 days old and has never experienced the life of a healthy child.

▪ There are experiences in life which seem barren, vapid or peripheral.

loss

▪ Nearly every person experiences memory loss as a normal part of the aging process.

▪ These patients had other diseases not normally seen in combination and had experienced profound weight loss and general debilitation.

▪ But it caused her to experience nearly fatal losses among conservatives.

▪ So we had already experienced the general loss of illusions in socialism.

▪ In the earlier volumes the supreme moment of love is experienced as loss of identity.

▪ Elders from minority groups may experience particular dimensions of loss which will be further explored in the following section.

▪ In this situation, she was experiencing the loss of her former identity as a competent working woman.

pain

▪ It is necessary to experience anxiety, pain, and death because we are alive.

▪ An involuntary action is set up which causes him to withdraw his hand even before he experiences any sensation of pain.

▪ As the Old Bailey Chronicle reported, Smith experienced excessive pain when first turned off, but that ceased almost immediately.

▪ Left fielder Billy Ashley experienced pain in his left hamstring Saturday while running out of the box.

▪ When the patient's spasticity is controlled, he will no longer experience any pain.

▪ But the company is experiencing growing pains as competition heats up.

▪ At some time in our lives most of us will experience back pain - for some the consequences can be devastating.

▪ Like them, she has experienced the pain of being fat, and can even joke about it.

patient

▪ This patient had experienced several episodes of palpitations although she was otherwise well.

▪ Some patients experience a slow decline in their health as the effectiveness of the drugs gradually decreases.

▪ The aim is to reinforce the correct patterns of movement which the patient has experienced under the guidance of the physiotherapist.

▪ The Dying Tirne then becomes the last adventure, an adventure as great as any others that patients have experienced.

▪ Most patients were experiencing a large drop in viral load.

▪ The new administration leaned toward a more extreme view on contagion than patients had experienced in years.

▪ Occasionally, patients experience side effects at peak levels.

problem

▪ The nursery tells it has experienced no problems at all, except that the composts are a bit more expensive.

▪ Frustrated customers who are experiencing the same problems have filed several class-action lawsuits.

▪ Again within each type of disability the majority of those who experience the problem reside in the community.

▪ Persians, with their pushed-in faces, can experience problems breathing.

▪ Humans experience few of these problems when reading.

▪ Ripken began to experience problems with his back in July.

▪ Clearly, there is a gap between the Opposition Front Bench and those who have experienced these problems in their constituencies.

sense

▪ Besides he was beginning to experience that inordinate sense of relief which tells you that you have done the right thing.

▪ They allow us to experience history with our senses and emotions rather than just understand it with our minds.

▪ One approach to sites is to look at the way we experience them through our senses.

▪ You will experience a remarkable sense of freedom.

▪ Looking down at the dead man Wycliffe felt guilty because he was experiencing a sense of mild elation.

▪ When they are moved into the private sector, they often experience the same sense of liberation.

▪ He experienced a sense of fatalism that kept fear at bay.

▪ All said they were experiencing a greater sense of control over their eating.

■ VERB

begin

▪ Suddenly, other districts of the city began to experience the arrival of the bulldozers.

▪ From the moment they began to climb, Converse began to experience a curious elation.

▪ In recent years it has begun to experience high levels of adult and youth unemployment.

▪ Ripken began to experience problems with his back in July.

▪ At the start of the season sufferers usually begin to experience problems when the pollen count reaches 50.

▪ It was at this time that Margaret joined the Franciscan tertiaries and began to experience visions and healing powers.

▪ First, the executives begin to experience each other as more supportive and constructive.

▪ Granato began experiencing headaches so severe, he sought medical help.