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harrowing experience

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meanings of harrowingand experience


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harrowing
adjective
uk /ˈhær.əʊ.ɪŋ/ us /ˈher.oʊ.ɪŋ/
extremely upsetting because connected ...
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experience
noun
uk /ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/ us /ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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Examples of harrowing experience


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One storyteller, for instance, remembered strict, ruthless teachers - a harrowingexperience.
He came very near to being an abolitionist in describing one harrowingexperience culled from his legal practice when his arm had nearly been twisted.
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The impact of even one such fatality can be a harrowingexperience.
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I agree that for the residents in the area this must have been a very harrowingexperience.
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I can imagine his having the most harrowingexperience of his life in trying to resolve this almost intractable situation.
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I have had the harrowingexperience of trying to prove after death what a man could not prove in life.
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The antique formality and arcane lawyer's language of those proceedings must prove to be for many children a harrowingexperience.
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Those families have suffered a particularly harrowingexperience.
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To be flooded is in itself a harrowingexperience even though the water may be only inches deep.
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Those events were a harrowingexperience for those who were present.
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I am aware that he has had the harrowingexperience of visiting the site.
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We pay tribute to them because they have gone through a harrowingexperience.
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He has had the most harrowingexperience of listening to that terrible evidence, and he now has to decide on the matters and make recommendations.
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It was a harrowingexperience for my research team.
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That can be a very harrowingexperience indeed.
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It must have been a most difficult and harrowingexperience both for the women concerned and the people who questioned them.
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This was, to say the least, a harrowingexperience for the people in the house.
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I do not think either of us could be accused following that harrowingexperience of being utopian.
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The people there have had a harrowingexperience, one they will never forget.
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The fact remains that court is still a deeply harrowingexperience for children who have often already been very seriously damaged.
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