Use experience in a sentence
Sentences starting with experience
- Experience is what we all need, and though love or love-making cannot be called a novelty, there is something quite fresh about the study of it in the modern spirit. [4]
- Experience had taught us some valuable things; among others, how to take care of ourselves, how to avoid and defeat sharks and sharpers, and how to conduct our own business for our own profit and without other people's help. [5]
- Experience shows us that whatever event occurs it is always related to the will of one or of several men who have decreed it. [2]
- Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer. [5]
- Experience has shown that we cannot successfully defend ourselves without it. [7]
- Experience seems to teach that while they cannot come to us, we may sometimes go to them. [4]
- Experience has never put a chill upon my warm-heartedness. [12]
- Experience has taught, or will teach you, that most of the wonderful stories patients and others tell of sudden and signal cures are like Owen Glendower's story of the portents that announced his birth. [3]
- Experience teaches them nothing; they can't seem to learn anything except out of a book. [5]
- Experience means the knowledge gained by habitual trial, and an expert is one who has been in the habit of trying. [3]
Sentences ending with experience
- Wendelin had not yet had any such experience. [10]
- His tutelar relations with Lali had reopened many an old spring of sensation and experience. [11]
- So a young wife not yet a mother loses herself for hours together in a vista of unexplored experience. [11]
- She was not wicked enough to wish that; yet in the past few weeks she had found herself capable of thinking things beyond the bounds of any past experience. [11]
- An old nurse who saw him at the very earliest period of his existence is said to have spoken of him as one of the most promising infants she had seen in her long experience. [6]
- Granting all this, we must not expect too much from "science" as distinguished from common experience. [3]
- In a small way we were the same sort of simpletons as those who climb unnecessarily the perilous peaks of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, and derive no pleasure from it except the reflection that it isn't a common experience. [5]
- It's the perfect way and the only true way (I speak from experience. [5]
- His scheme, now, was to prepare himself to speak from bitter experience. [5]
- This fact he was to learn by personal experience. [4]
Short sentences using experience
- The experience of writing letters. [6]
- Then my experience with Mr. [9]
- We have had this experience. [5]
- But trust experience, Sir Pyramus! [10]
- Others gave a similar experience. [7]
- This is my own experience. [10]
- It was a new experience. [5]
- That was an interesting experience. [6]
- The situation transcended his experience. [9]
- I know this from experience. [5]
Sentences containing experience two or more times
- In Egypt, the wise man is never surprised at anything, and Kingsley had gone from experience to experience without dismay. [11]
- It is matter of experience that wealth and learning and power are as likely to bring unhappiness as happiness, and yet this constant lesson of experience makes not the least impression upon human conduct. [4]
- And yet there is hardly one man in a thousand who knows from actual experience a fraction of what I have learned of the lovers' vocabulary in my professional experience. [6]
- Marie Couttet's experience, in finding his friend's hand unaltered from the image of it which he had carried in his memory for forty years, is an experience which stands alone in the history of man, perhaps. [5]
- That's the way I philosophize a man of Dryfoos's experience, and I am not very proud when I realize that such a man and his experience are the ideal and ambition of most Americans. [8]
- Experience alone can guide us to the place where these things are, hence indeed you need experience. [9]
- As for the feelings of Evelyn in these days--her first experience of something like freedom in the world--the historian has only universal experience to guide him. [4]
- Could you, who did not experience it, come nearer to reproducing it to the imagination of another non-participant than could a Vicksburger who did experience it? [5]
- I supposed I could do anything anybody else could, but I recognize that experience helps, and I do feel the lack of that experience. [5]
- For experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes. [5]
More example sentences with the word experience in them
- Himself in early youth had felt the austerity of a Cavalier father turned a Puritan on a sudden, and he wished no such experience for his daughter. [11]
- I could wish your experience of your friends were more animating than mine, and that there were any horoscope you could not cast from the first day. [6]
- Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual. [14]
- Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition. [4]
- Shall I tell you what that experience was? [6]
- T.] "Possible that you not it saw not," said Smiley, "possible that you--you comprehend frogs; possible that you not you there comprehend nothing; possible that you had of the experience, and possible that you not be but an amateur. [5]
- I haven't asked you any of the particulars, Captain, but I judge it goes without saying--if my experience is worth anything--that there wasn't much of a hooraw made over you when you arrived--now was there? [5]
- Feeble hearts as you all are, respect the experience of the aged, and bless Fate if it should lame the horse of the Kadi's messenger!--However, you will not listen to anything oracular, so it will be better to talk of something else. [10]
- It does not yield to time nor to decay, to the long wash of experience that wears away the stone, nor to disintegration. [11]
- It was sensitive, yet firm, as with some purpose deep as her nature was by creation and experience, and always deepening that nature. [11]
- After almost three years' experience, Winslow says, he can scarce distinguish New England from Old England, in respect of heat and cold, frost, snow, rain, winds, etc. [3]
- The last twenty-odd years' efforts to reduce the price of the lands, and to pass graduation bills and cession bills, prove the assertion to be true; and if there were no experience in support of it, the reason itself is plain. [7]
- Fifteen or twenty years ago I had an experience I shall never forget. [5]
- Born old, one would, of course, inherit experience, so that wealth could be made to contribute to happiness, and each day, instead of lessening the natural powers and increasing infirmities, would bring new vigor and capacity of enjoyment. [4]
- To do so would be to discard all the lights of current experience to reject all progress, all improvement. [7]
- Nuremberg had been witnessing this sort of experience a couple of times a day for about two weeks. [5]
- All of them, with the questionable exception of the Springfield tree above referred to, stop, so far as my experience goes, at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet of girth and a hundred and twenty of spread. [6]
- And my experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. [6]
- Let me begin with my first experience as a medical student. [3]
- His early experience with it, however, seems interesting. [5]
- Where Conspicuousness carries with it a Power which, by the light of our own observation and experience, we are able to measure and comprehend, I think our envy of the possessor is as deep and as passionate as is that of any other nation. [5]
- When I meet with any facts in my own mental experience, I feel almost sure that I shall find them repeated or anticipated in the writings or the conversation of others. [6]
- And Hodder had, with an audacity unparalleled in the banker's experience arraigned by implication his whole life, managed to put him on the defensive. [9]
- She smiled as, with an access of tenderness, in spite of his experience and power she suddenly felt years older than Ditmar. [9]
- The fact is, with a woman's quick intuition, she had read in my tone something suggestive of my recent experience with Mrs. Falchion. [11]
- I was received with a deference which was entirely foreign to my experience by everybody whom I met, so that before I got home I had a much higher opinion of myself than I have ever had before or since. [5]
- In fact it will be found that a large proportion of the proverbial sayings which we glibly use are fallacies based on a very limited experience of the world, and probably were set afloat by the idiocy or prejudice of one person. [4]
- The Parson, however, whose only experience of the theatre was the endurance of an oratorio once, was very cordial in his denunciation of the stage altogether. [4]
- A young woman who was a stunner, who rode wild horses and fell off them and rode them again, was beyond the pale not only of Euphrasia's experience but of her imagination likewise. [9]
- Yet the practitioner who prescribes the nitrate of silver supposes he is guided by the solemn experience of the past, instead of by its idle fancies. [6]
- Among them many who have tasted the college prison's dreary hospitality was a lively young fellow from one of the Southern states of America, whose first year's experience of German university life was rather peculiar. [5]
- Children of twenty-five, who have seven years experience, try to tell me what is a good cigar and what isn't. [5]
- But the man who can--give us a fresh experience on anything that interests us overrides everybody else. [6]
- What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? [5]
- Some, however, questioned whether it was not the work of a new hand, who wrote, not from experience, but from his or her ideas of the condition to which a story-teller, a novelist, must in all probability be sooner or later reduced. [6]
- In those moments when it stirs within me, I am master of much which is peculiar to the experience and potentiality of that hour. [10]
- You will recall what Byron wrote to Coleridge: "I trust you do not permit yourself to be depressed by the temporary partiality of what is called 'the public' for the favorites of the moment; all experience is against the permanency of such impressions. [4]
- But if experience went for anything, we should all come to a standstill; for there is nothing so discouraging to effort. [4]
- His experience may well be a guide for others. [6]
- Twice in a week, our Clara had this latter experience with him within the past month. [5]
- I think that we should not make our own personal experience a law unto the world. [11]
- Taught by experience, we ought not to put on our things for this Brahminical one till we see the procession move. [5]
- Regard all new ways in the light of fresh experience for you: if you see any honey gather it. [14]
- In some cryptic way it was associated with the direful experience through which she had just passed. [11]
- I used to watch Mr. Grosvenor Kyme as he sat at the end of the dinner-table, dark, preoccupied, taciturn, symbolical of a wealth new to my experience, and which had about it a certain fabulous quality. [9]
- She was a washer and ironer, and knew enough by hard experience to keep money when she got it. [5]
- Dr. Twitchell's experience was very similar. [6]
- But his experience was that of all who buy, and renovate, and build. [4]
- If the scheme was striking, and new to the world's experience, the situation was not less so. [5]
- Though Boonda Broke was smiling, the lad's face flushed again with anger, for the man's real character had been revealed to him on the instant, and he was yet in the indignant warmth of the new experience. [11]
- Intimacy with domains was new to him, and he began to experience an involuntary feeling of restraint which was new to him likewise, and made him chafe in spite of himself. [9]
- At first he was merely conscious of having gone through a fearful experience, which threatened to fling him far outside the sphere of everything he was wont to reverence and hold sacred. [10]
- You see, I was full of the knowledge and experience of seventy-two years; the deepest subject those young folks could strike was only a-b-c to me. [5]
- A great effort was demanded to summon up the now almost unimaginable experience of his confidence; of the evening when, almost on that very spot, he had revealed to Hodder the one weakness of his life. [9]
- John Hodder's mother was a widow, and to her, in the white, gabled house which had sheltered stern ancestors, he travelled in the June following his experience. [9]
- Perhaps the experience was a damage to him; and it is a pity that there was no one to explain that religion for a little fellow like him is not a "scheme. [4]
- Believe me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all the experience of old Cunctators. [2]
- Those who know Wall Street best, by reason of sad experience, say that the presiding deity there is not the Chinese god, Luck, but the awful pagan deity, Nemesis. [4]
- Besides, it was very interesting to have Mr. Morgan's point of view of Washington, and to see the shifting panorama through his experience. [4]
- I must seem very ignorant to you; but you must try to overlook that, because I have never had any experience of such a swell duel as this before. [5]
- It was not very hard to ingratiate himself in that quarter; for his manners were insinuating, and his precocious experience of life made him entertaining. [6]
- My profit is various in kind and degree; but the feature of it which I value most is the zest which that early experience has given to my later reading. [5]
- They bathed that vain mind in the illusion that it could see into the secret springs of experience. [11]
- The experience was utterly unlike my anticipation. [9]
- Perhaps most, of us, will agree that our faith in domestic prophets has been diminished by the experience of the last six months. [6]
- And experience tells us that power is not merely a word but an actually existing phenomenon. [2]
- How many of us have had the same experience as Honora! [9]
- Several long journeys--gave us experience of the Cape Colony railways; easy-riding, fine cars; all the conveniences; thorough cleanliness; comfortable beds furnished for the night trains. [5]
- It is not unusual for a quiet country gentleman to be more taken with such a venture than a speculator who, has had more experience in its uncertainty. [5]
- It was not unrelated to experience, but transcended it. [9]
- Life--here was life unpoisoned by one drop of ill thought or light experience. [11]
- It was not true, but the story had value for me, for it made me nervous, and nervousness wakes a person up and makes him alive and alert, and heightens the thrill of a new and doubtful experience. [5]
- Philippus loved Paula.--A trifling incident suddenly occurred to his mind which made him certain on that point; he had only too much experience in such matters. [10]
- They could only tremble and pray, for they knew from experience that a threatening disaster never turned to a good end unless it had been expected with real dread. [10]
- A strange process, too, this by which experience is converted into thought as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin. [6]
- It is work, too, that I know by experience I shall have to do alone. [4]
- Their eyes met, too, and the story told by Dyck in that moment was the beginning of a lifetime of experience, comedy, and tragedy. [11]
- I have never told you of my own earlier experience. [4]
- I, who compared to you, am like a faun with pointed ears beside the handsome Ares, nevertheless know by experience how easily the glowing eyes of that country kindle conflagrations. [10]
- For facts relating to this question we must look to two sources; the recorded experience of the medical profession in general, and the results of trials made according to Homoeopathic principles, and capable of testing the truth of the doctrine. [3]
- My second visit to the great stones after so long an interval was a strange experience. [6]
- If I were to tell some of my experience, you would recognize California blood in me; I fancy the old, old story would sound familiar, no doubt. [5]
- Therefore we decided to take up our residence on our own domain and enjoy that large sense of independence which only such an experience can bring. [5]
- When you came to study him closely, some sense of time and experience in his look told you that he might be thirty-eight, though his few grey hairs seemed but to emphasise a certain youthfulness in him. [11]
- If I wished to show a student the difficulties of getting at truth from medical experience, I would give him the history of epilepsy to read. [3]
- I don't want to shock you, and I know how terribly you and father must feel, but I can see now, somehow, that I had to go through this experience, terrible as it was, to find myself. [9]
- He is accustomed to seeing the publisher impoverish the author--that spectacle must be getting stale to him--if he contracts with the undersigned he will experience a change in that programme that will make the enamel peel off his teeth for very surprise--and joy. [5]
- It was astonishing to see what a little experience of miscellaneous practice had done for him. [6]
- And Philip learned to read in this varying advice the changes in her own experience. [4]
- Occasionally he tried to piece together the several stages of strange experience and to make a whole. [13]
- I knew how to nurse both of them, and had had experience. [5]
- He wrote daily to Mrs. Clemens, and his letters tell the story of that drowsy, happy experience better than the notes made with a view to publication. [5]
- If the opportunity to make an attack arrived, a powerful fleet would be at her disposal, for which smaller ships also should now be built at Klysma, on the basis of the experience gained at Actium. [10]
- Formerly I used to listen to report with interest, and a certain credulity; but I am now grown deaf and sceptical: experience has taught me how absolutely devoid of foundation her stories may be. [14]
- We were soon to learn by experience the number of days required to reach my mother's home from Berlin, for there was then no railroad to Holland. [10]
- It is pleasant to know we are disappointed, in that we never dreamed we might see portions of the actual Temple of Solomon, and yet experience no shadow of suspicion that they were a monkish humbug and a fraud. [5]
- How was he to know that thousands of his countrymen were to experience the same sensation? [9]
- The experience gave to his keenly observant mind an insight into the nature of men which was to be of special service to him in later years. [4]
- I had expected to feel some dread, or shrinking, or at least some sense of insecurity, but I did not the slightest, then or afterwards; and I think mine is the usual experience. [4]
- Or, the Pathway to Experience to erect a Plantation. [4]
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