harrowing experience

collocation in English

meaningsofharrowingandexperience

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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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(Definition ofharrowingandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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