frightening experience

collocation in English

meaningsoffrighteningandexperience

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frightening
adjective
uk
/ˈfraɪ.tən.ɪŋ/us
/ˈfraɪ.tən.ɪŋ/
making you ...
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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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(Definition offrighteningandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is afrighteningexperiencefor any motorist to pass a commercial vehicle approaching the present maximum limit of 32 tonnes when it is raining.
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It is afrighteningexperiencewhich can happen even to the safest and most careful drivers.
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This was a veryfrighteningexperienceand had to be handled with care.
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I intervene only to say that it is always afrighteningexperienceto have my noble friend behind me.
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For other passengers on a flight, it can be an alarming andfrighteningexperienceto witness violence or worse, with no means of escape.
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It is afrighteningexperiencefor an adult but a terrifying and possibly a scarring one for a child.
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It can be a horrible andfrighteningexperienceto be thrown in at the deep end.
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To be young, lonely, hungry and penniless in a big city is afrighteningexperience.
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He had never been to a welfare home, and it must have been afrighteningexperiencefor him.
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Unless one has a very high standard, driving on motorways is afrighteningexperience.
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I had afrighteningexperiencethere, and it was shared by some of my colleagues.
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Does he further accept that such low-flying has caused a great deal of concern and surprised objection by residents, who find low-flying afrighteningexperience?
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It is afrighteningexperience, and it is important to emphasise that asthma is far more serious than an occasional shortage of breath.
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It took me some hours to get over what was afrighteningexperience.
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That must have been a veryfrighteningexperience.
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This is a veryfrighteningexperiencefor the children.
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First, it has been realised that admission to hospital for a young child, a little child, particularly, is a fairlyfrighteningexperience.
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It is always afrighteningexperience, and we commend him for his performance today.
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Assistance will tell us that the experience of making that application for the first time was one of the mostfrighteningexperienceof their lives.
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Crossing the road on foot can be at best afrighteningexperienceand at worst fatal.
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