terrifying experience

collocation in English

meaningsofterrifyingandexperience

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terrifying
adjective
uk
/ˈter.ə.faɪ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈter.ə.faɪ.ɪŋ/
very ...
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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 ofterrifyingandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thisterrifyingexperienceleads to a discussion of her "liability" not to hysteria, but to something like agoraphobia.
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That was aterrifyingexperienceat 4 o'clock in the morning, and one that could easily have ended in tragedy.
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It was certainly an edifying and indeedterrifyingexperienceto be up there in a high wind.
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It is aterrifyingexperiencefor young women.
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Asthma is aterrifyingexperiencefor the parents of children who suffer from it.
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A child has been through aterrifyingexperienceat the time of the alleged offence.
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It is an awesome,terrifyingexperienceto have 50 people camped outside one's modest house in a small village.
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To be caught by any form of snare must be aterrifyingexperiencefor any free-living wild animal.
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In the end in most cases they find something, but it is aterrifyingexperiencewaiting to see if they will.
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Let us think, for a moment, of theterrifyingexperienceof having one's clothes in a blaze of fire and of being severely burnt.
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He nearly died in the process, and it was aterrifyingexperience.
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The telephone can ring at any time of the day or night—at night by one's bedside, and it can be aterrifyingexperience.
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Those appalling disasters have shocked everybody and must have been aterrifyingexperiencefor those who were unlucky enough to be involved.
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To hear again now the same kind of words, coming over in the way in which we have heard them only recently, is aterrifyingexperience.
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It was aterrifyingexperience.
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That was a fairlyterrifyingexperience.
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It is not a veryterrifyingexperience.
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It is a mostterrifyingexperience.
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It is aterrifyingexperience.
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