sobering experience

collocation in English

meaningsofsoberingandexperience

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sobering
adjective
uk
/ˈsəʊ.bər.ɪŋ/us
/ˈsoʊ.bɚ.ɪŋ/
making you feel serious or think about ...
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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 ofsoberingandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is asoberingexperienceto go to the offices of the local council in one's town.
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Inevitably, though, the recital of the facts of this disease, and personal witness of the suffering it causes, has been asoberingexperiencefor me.
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The election campaign was asoberingexperiencefor me in that it revealed housing need.
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I had supposed that remorse and thesoberingexperienceof opposition had led them to believe that rural transport should have greater priority today.
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It was asoberingexperience.
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We sometimes talk more than we listen, and it is asoberingexperienceto listen, particularly to people who do not normally come into contact with political animals like ourselves.
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It is asoberingexperience.
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I put the lives of my team in danger so it was really a verysoberingexperienceto me.
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Writing the lyrics offered her a backwards glimpse at the angry, determined youth she once was but with thesoberingexperienceof her adult years.
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Kuo described the detention as a moment of humbleness and a verysoberingexperienceyou get cut down, you know that you do nt know enough.
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