EXPERIENCE in a Sentence

Learn EXPERIENCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for EXPERIENCE, such as:
1. Knowledge comes from experience alone.
2. For he knew by experience what it meant.
3. I know from experience that he'll arrive late.
4. I was able to gain invaluable experience over that year.
5. We're looking for someone with experience in administration.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of EXPERIENCE
experience
 v.  go or live through
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The Boots pointed out the door to me, and was about to go downstairs again when I saw something that made me feel sickish, in spite of my twenty years' experience.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  I think Tom may be gradually falling into trouble, and I wish to stretch out a helping hand to him from the depths of my wicked experience.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
3  He had therefore experience to guide him, as well as hope, that he might again, as formerly, be delivered as a prey from the fowler.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  Both sisters had had their love experience by the time the war came, and they were hurried home.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  But he was a man of experience himself, and let life take its course.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  It was obvious in them too that love had gone through them: that is, the physical experience.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  Whereas the men, in gratitude to the woman for the sex experience, let their souls go out to her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  Yet in some curious way it was a visionary experience: it had hit her in the middle of the body.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  The stand-offishness and the lack of frankness didn't bother her; she was having a new experience.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  She felt his experience had been deeper and wider than her own; much deeper and wider, and perhaps more deadly.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
12  For he knew by experience what it meant.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  And he was a thousand years older in experience, starting from the bottom.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  Connie, who understood nothing at all of the technicalities of motors, and who had had experience of breakdowns, sat patiently on the bank as if she were a cipher.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  Only to my experience the mass of women are like this: most of them want a man, but don't want the sex, but they put up with it, as part of the bargain.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Few would argue that this team has experience and proven ability.
2  I was able to gain invaluable experience over that year.
3  The salary will be fixed according to qualifications and experience.
4  We're looking for someone with experience in administration.
5  Bevin is now an adult and has re-lived her birth experience under hypnosis.
6  After this heartbreaking experience, Thorpe turned to professional sports.
7  If you experience any unusual symptoms after withdrawal of the treatment then contact your doctor.
8  Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
9  All is but lip-wisdom that wants experience.
10  Knowledge comes from experience alone.
11  Research is also advanced by frequent conference to exchange experience.
12  The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
13  Getting some work experience now will stand you in good stead when you apply for a permanent job.
14  Humans experience a delayed maturity; we arrive at all stages of life later than other mammals.
15  I know from experience that he'll arrive late.