In fact, history’s most tragic result of a mixed, therefore diluted and weakened, ethnic identity has been experienced by a white ethnic group—the Jew in Germany. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Jethro was to experience one attack of childish fury before the transition to his new standing was fully accomplished. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dillehay told Haynes his experience with stone tools in Arizona was useless in evaluating wooden implements in Peru, and then stomped outside with a supporter. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now it occurred to him that Frank might have had a bad experience with fire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As fishermen became more and more adept at bringing illegal liquor ashore, the Coast Guard patrols also became more experienced and began using faster engines on their boats. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The maximum capacity of the arena is three thousand people, which is more than perfect for Deckers, their guests, those with incurable diseases, and anyone else looking to enjoy the experience. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Starting around puberty, the limbic system becomes more sensitive to stimulus, which is one reason teenagers become both more emotional and more interested in having new and intense experiences. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was a circular process: one generation of lawyers hiring new lawyers whose life experience mirrored their own, leaving little room for diversity of any sort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Until then I had spent bits and pieces of time in prison, but this was my first concentrated experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In order to do this, we will need Dauntless’s help. They have the weapons and the combat experience. You could bridge the gap between us and them.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The author must understand from firsthand experience a range of human societies, from hunter-gatherer societies to modern space-age civilizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many assumed that Mark Antony would claim Caesar’s power for himself because Octavian lacked experience. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I ate the fried pig skins, danced, screamed and drank the extra-sweet and sticky Coca-Cola with the nearest approach to abandonment I had ever experienced. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were so completely foreign to his experience, I realized, that I must have seemed like an alien. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was sure that mine about Everest was not mine alone; the highest point on earth, unattainable, foreign to all experience, was there for many boys and grown men to aspire toward. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A deadpan was something she’d cultivated herself, and she knew from experience that such a perfect one was not easily come by. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s your memory, now. It’s not mine to experience any longer. I gave it away.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In my experience, you put a suit on any half-intelligent black man and white people tended to go bonkers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A man who can’t learn from experience is a fool, he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This chatlink is part of our sales pitch. We want to give you the same experience you’d have if you came to visit our headquarters in person.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But where were the Brahmins, the priests, the wise men, who were successful not only in having this most profound knowledge, but in experiencing it? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

From experience I knew that an “indefinite” grounding could be negotiated favorably—if only Abbey would quit whining. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Renaissance view of nature as a machine...is based on the human experience of designing and constructing machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was, in Sergeant Maples’s experience, a man both technically proficient at stick fighting and willing to inflict violence on another man. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was, he wrote, “a terrifying experience that somehow cannot be blotted out.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push the door open without even knocking and ask, How do I get to the state of experiencing an emotional conclusion to a difficult life event? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Minya. Unlike you, the rest of us experience a normal range of emotion, including but not limited to distress when forced to endure the disgust of the dead.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had not hitchhiked in twenty-five years, and it was a vaguely humbling experience. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” I said, unaccountably excited that the story was at last beginning to dovetail with my own experience. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The referee was right: Plutarch’s experience was an indirect experience, just as Aristotle’s phenomena were based on other people’s experiences; Garzoni’s and della Porta’s experiences were based on real, personally performed tests. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For example, an experienced horn or clarinet player can play much higher and lower notes than a beginner. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There was a shamefulness about the experience of Herbert's execution I couldn't shake. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"That isn't the problem, my boy. You just aren't prepared for work under our industrial conditions. Later, perhaps, but not now. And remember, you'll be adequately compensated for your experience." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the end of dinner, students introduced the Holocaust survivors sitting with them and told us the most interesting information about their experiences. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It should immediately be apparent that in a culture in which experience was taking on a new significance, the term ‘fact’ was invaluable because it identified that type of knowledge which is grounded in experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This belief causes them to take up arms against their ruler, but they fool themselves in this, since they then see through experience that matters have become worse. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Do you know how to get to the state of experiencing an emotional conclusion to a difficult life event? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few precarious seconds, the chaplain tingled with a weird, occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before in some prior time or existence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

How can students of human history profit from the experience of scientists in other historical sciences? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Grace, you had a baby and they seemed to come through that experience just fine. I don’t think you’re giving them enough credit.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The odors of the laboratory animals, dogs, monkeys, mice, spin me back into memories, and it is difficult to know whether I am experiencing a new sensation or recalling the past. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had experienced nightmares in the past, but they began to grow stronger—shattering images flooding back from the massacre. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of being concerned that a young woman was speaking for the community, they saw that I was developing a voice that could help people understand our experience. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Blackavar, do you know that earlier this summer, before we had the benefit of your experience, we went for days across every kind of country—fields, heather, woods, downs—and never lost one rabbit?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, improvisation can be taught to some degree in that it requires a set of tools and prior experiences from which to draw. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Would I write for a white world that I thought might exist but had never really experienced? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His work experience gave him an edge for sabotaging factories. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In Johannesburg, I moved in circles where common sense and practical experience were more important than high academic qual-ifications. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colorful cologne bottles attracted me, but my experience with after-shaves was not favorable. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For Jack, the experience was a low point. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The oil paintings my parents made on their first date because Pa wanted to wow Ma with an experience more memorable than just dinner. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I may live a very sheltered life, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t experienced a few unspeakable things. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

When we had finally gone through the whole house, the older cousins, who were more experienced in lying, said how much they'd enjoyed the paintings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Now I was at a similar crossroads, one that might require me to give up my dream of a traditional college experience with my peers. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But as time went on, I realized they have had experiences I can’t imagine. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Thanks to my mother, I did have some childhood experience as a gatherer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This was my first experience setting foot into a caged place. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wish the resettlement system for refugees could help mentor parents—not to tell them how to raise their kids, but to help them understand the new culture their children are experiencing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Here he is, folks. None the worse for the experience. A good boy. I think we’re going to be good friends, eh, Charlie?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Papa always said there is no point in your bad experiences except to learn from them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I think she felt bad for me and my lack of experience with what she called “the real world.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

We went to this place on the river where Lucas first told me about his brother and where I had, some time after that, experienced an R-rated moment with Laura Fish. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

They felt heavy enough together, but I thought again how Father had said about the reducto absurdum of human experience, thinking how the only opportunity I seemed to have for the application of Harvard. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If justice prevails, would experiencing Alan’s prejudice have been worth it?” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And yet, positively: The ability to consider experience so abstractly allowed me to shape into desire what would otherwise have remained indefinite, meaningless longing in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my experience, a political strike is always riskier than an economic one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The experience stood me in good stead now. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

After breaking down exactly what I had been feeling, it was she who suggested that perhaps what I was experiencing was anxiety manifesting itself as fatigue. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The experience was like “swimming in syrup,” Wigner would recall. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Thalia had more experience than any of us with fending off monsters in the real world. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I fear that magic must be dark,” he said, “to have done such a thing as erase a name. That has been my only experience of it. Well,” he added, “until the white bird.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sam and James, the hopefuls, were neither old enough nor experienced enough. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In some older recordings, the singing would be re-recorded by a Western chorus, which took away from the experience of hearing the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I was excited to be independent and to experience life without my parents’ watchful eyes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Harry could not tell whether the shivers he was experiencing were due to his spine-deep coldness or to the same awareness of enchantments. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Only when I revealed to him that my mother was the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi did his Jewish background emerge, because he understood the true depth of Mommy’s experience immediately. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who can tell before it happens, that every prior experience, all the years, were a preparation for...nothing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And now that I am back in America, my attitude here concerning white people has to be governed by what my black brothers and I experience here, and what we witness herein terms of brotherhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To experience it just once. And I need to get back down the hall and get in line, and have that chance. I just—I will regret it forever if I don’t.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Up in the sky, her nose wrinkled as though she were experiencing the concentrated male stench firsthand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The more experienced kids got started with their drills right away. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My father and mother did not pass their time thinking about the cultural meanings of their experience. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to experience a little of that fear. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I told them it’d be good acting experience for the musical. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I felt vastly less experienced and worldly than my fellow students. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I therefore hit out at him and was going to hit out again, when he said, “Aha! Would you?” and began dancing backwards and forwards in a manner quite unparalleled within my limited experience. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most typically the men displayed a tendency not to experience anger or rage in association with violent aggressive action. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you’ve been somewhere before, that you’ve somehow already dreamed it or experienced it in your mind. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Again, the Muslim community was particularly receptive to hearing about my experiences and cheered me on in my pursuits. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Entering the woods at night is a haunting experience, especially for someone with a vivid imagination. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crew experienced weightlessness for several seconds, then were pressed back into their couches as the next stage began. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using Einstein’s theory of relativity you can construct a world—the world of our daily experience—in which Newtonian laws very closely correspond to what actually happens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The basic thing about the Amazon is that these people had a longterm period to learn about and experience and benefit from their knowledge of the environment,” Meggers said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Since I was twelve, I didn’t have much experience with motors. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

We drink punch and tell one another lying tales of our experiences. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mornings as the streetcar traversed my ghetto I experienced a mixture of dread and trauma. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we would hint that we were pausing for but a few days and then would be off to even more fabulous places and marvelous experiences. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the only thing that could have made the whole experience even more perfect. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In her experience, when there was good news, people just said what the good news was. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The correspondence between theories and facts was so crucial that Galileo and Newton were prepared to bend the facts to fit the theories, even while insisting on the priority of experience over theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had plenty of experience of change, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse, but he had no notion of irreversible change, and he had no notion of progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The excitement of being at the epicenter of that kind of intense experience captured Riddick and never released him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the range, the horse had experienced everything, including a bull goring that had left a gouge in his rump. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There simply did not seem to be aeronautical engineers and experienced test pilots who were black or women. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, Emma experienced the illness as much as Charles did—almost. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a righteous tone he described his client as an experienced boat captain, respected businessman, and “pillar of the community.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes, as a matter of fact. I have some experience with that.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It’s not obvious whether this is because it didn’t happen, or because it simply wasn’t something these women chose to talk about when they looked back on their wartime experiences. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He expected the professors and students there to have opinions about politics, religion, and literature beyond what he'd experienced in Ohio. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

However, too many schools have succumbed to funding challenges or embraced a narrow focus on tested subjects, resulting in minimal, if any, arts experiences for the children they serve. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I could use my personal experiences as an athlete to train and inspire this younger generation, truly making a difference in their lives, including in the life of my sister Faizah. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

From my experiences my hair has been frightened and gone white. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It happens when your brain isn’t even fully done cooking—when you’ve barely experienced anything, really. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I have long been skeptical of the bamboozlement theory, because in my experience it does not ring true. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

None of the experienced whalers could remember ever seeing the pack so far north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I don’t suppose any of us know what to call the experience yet. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He remembered experiencing the same disquieting sensation almost two weeks later when Yossarian appeared at his tent to ask to be taken off combat duty. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The whole experience was unsettling and completely demoralizing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This despair, this extreme nausea which he had experienced had not overpowered him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others suffered emotionally from their combat experiences, whether on the front lines or in bombed-out cities. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had experienced marriage as ephemeral: His mother had married twice, divorced twice, and in each instance managed to move on with her life, career, and young children intact. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The castaway was to his mind an experienced sailor who, compass, chart and sextant in hand, knew how he found his way into trouble, if not how he would get out of it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you’re serious about opening yourself up to new experiences, though. Doesn’t have to be something like the party car.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Any other day, I would have been enthralled by the experience. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It takes experience to do this, as it’s quite tricky to determine how far beyond the skin the seeds begin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Surely the wonderful experience of going over that bridge would make him feel different. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were black, you experienced abuse every day of your life. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“How hard it is, to be rejected by one’s own flesh and blood. I see that you have experienced this, too.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In 1869, the women’s suffrage movement experienced its first victory: The territory of Wyoming became the first US jurisdiction to grant women the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“And because my mind is sharpening day by day, I was going to ask if Epsilon-5 could accompany me to the surface tomorrow. We make a good team. My knowledge, combined with his experience.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sabrina calls out, reminding us to think about what we’re feeling and experiencing as we take in the images, because we will close the day with a reflection. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Robin wouldn't begin to experience those until her junior year, so we were saved from having to hear about them, at least. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren’t really new, but that he had never perceived before. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also knew I was going to hate that whole part of the experience, even if I came home with a million medals. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The captains would then look the rest of us over, using their obvious years of sporting experience, training, coaching, and performing at the highest levels of athletic competition. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

My first conscious experience of sexual excitement concerns my complexion. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plutarch had claimed ‘palpable experience’ of the disempowering effect of garlic upon the magnet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From what he experienced then to incipient paranoia was but a step. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve never experienced anything like it, but I knew that the entire point of playing music was to hope that once in a while you could bring this feeling to an audience of people. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru didn’t have any experience with dads, but she was pretty sure giving your kid a glowing Ping-Pong ball to fight demons was like getting pocket fuzz and spare change instead of an allowance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If I indulge in personal political history, it is because I think my experience may not be unique. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That year a reporter with USA Today interviewed me about the experience. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the experience, in spite of her growing discomfort, she’d been astonished by her body’s ability to make life, exactly as her mother and grandmother and all her greatgrandmothers had done. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The passion that she had for her job was a gift, one that few people ever experienced. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His experience was limited and he knew only at second hand that they need not lie down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were many more experienced pilots than there was air work to be done. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But, if one looks closely, it is apparent that the new science was about one thing more than anything else, and that is the triumph of experience over philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That gulf of experience encouraged Pizarro to set his trap and Atahuallpa to walk into it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Haymitch has never mentioned his personal experience in the arena to me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if perhaps he was experiencing something like that. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It’s my way of telling her that even though I haven’t experienced so many things, I have managed to have a life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Drawing on his business, writing, and directing experience, Houseman became a skillful theatre producer. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was the only one experiencing these little stomach flips. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the job, slurs and slights were an everyday experience. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was no more exciting experience than to be on the road to communion with God! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still thinking about this when she experienced a very rude awakening. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As our eyes meet, I get a kind of deja vu, but instead of feeling like I’m repeating something in the past, it feels like I’m experiencing something that will happen in my future. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all so on target, it makes me wonder if Shakespeare was writing from experience. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But Nikki’s hands were full with her own turbulent high school experience, which was about to come to a close. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Such indifference to electrical hazards, he knew from experience, would not have been tolerated in any professional setting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She tried not to worry even though she'd been experiencing some pains and problems with this pregnancy that she didn't remember having before. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I caught the attention of one of the more experienced artificers as he walked past. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He did not travel in time to the experience. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a curt smile, she says, “We expect to have a positive experience with you. Don’t do anything to threaten our trust.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Just tucking the papers into my backpack gives me a rush, because this moment is the first official basketball experience of the year. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of us had much experience in that area, actually. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He evidently believed that the Narragansett did not have enough experience with European guns to know that they were not as fearsome as they first appeared. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was all exciting, but she was experiencing something unusual as she made her way to the venue. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tall and blond, with handsome Slavic features, Boukreev was one of the most accomplished high-altitude climbers in the world, with twenty years of experience in the Himalaya, including two ascents of Everest without supplemental oxygen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And in the same passage he marked, The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the Mercury 7 project, men had to be military test pilots, each with at least 1,500 hours flight experience and a bachelor's degree in engineering. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Though Francis could not help dominating the lunchtime conversation, his mood was no longer that of a confident master lecturing hapless colonial children who until then had never experienced a first-rate intellect. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It is, I must say, a rather unsettling experience to realize this about a matter so close to my heart, particularly one I have given much thought to over the years. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why this failure? Could it have been prevented? What lessons could be drawn from our experiences that would enable others to avoid similar failures?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the age of five, six, well past the time when most other children no longer easily notice the difference between sounds uttered at home and words spoken in public, I had a different experience. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The experience left her shaken and embarrassed, but her skin eventually cleared up. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most rabbits in his situation, lacking almost all experience of wild life, would have fallen victim at once to the elil: but not Woundwort. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would like to tell of my life,” it runs at one point, “and of the experiences that make myriad my joys and sorrows upon this planet we call Earth.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The few passengers who defied the drivers usually cooled off at the police station, paid their fines, and tried to put their humiliating experiences behind them. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In the early 1900s Pierre Curie began to experience clear signs of radiation sickness–notably dull aches in his bones and chronic feelings of malaise–which doubtless would have progressed unpleasantly. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He himself had finished his training just a few weeks before, he would tell me later in the day, and did not have much experience on the galleries. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be good practice and would give me some experience in how to approach and observe wild monkeys. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My experience is that girls often confuse hot with tall.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Also, if anyone out there ever wants to experience the ultimate in crippling guilt, I recommend that you try beating a bald, bloated five-year-old cancer patient at a board game. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up to me as though she felt I had a world of experience more than she did—which really was the truth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the knife you’d choose to experience a slaughter, to feel the blood running down your hand the moment the heart stopped beating. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I explain to Alice that the project is a collection of true stories about maids and their experiences waiting on white families. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Felicia took over now, and she seemed to have a lot of experience using the viewing screen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This section will explore different types of songs appropriate for older children, and the process for introducing more complex musical experiences. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

If two people share an experience, whose experience is it? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eating with awareness is one of the basic joys of life, and one that everyone can experience even without hunting and gathering your food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They know more than I do and they’ve had more experience.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Actual experience we both catch on rite now, if we like to work at it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experimenters have to insist on the particularity of experience, but they also have to claim that general conclusions can be drawn from specific examples. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Katherine and the other women relaxed in each other’s company in the intimate setting, enjoying it even more for the many years that the experience had been denied them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It's worse than anything I've ever experienced, worse even than the first time I got cut in that knee. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Here I had a water faucet to drink from and I could experience the luxury of splashing cold water on my face as much as I wanted. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we all know from experience, there are some illnesses, such as flu and the common cold, to which our resistance is only temporary; we can eventually contract the illness again. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I try to keep my own experience in the same perspective. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while we hadn't been successful in finding Dell Duke's lost cat named Cheddar, I couldn't help but experience a kind of accomplishment as I stood next to fourteen-year-old Mai and her surly big brother. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Overwhelmingly, though, their experience lay in the clothing trade. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Now YOU can be part of the Captains Bodacious cruise experience! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At first the square can make no sense of what is happening; it is utterly outside his experience. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, so the journal prompt was “Pick any character in Mark Twain’s works and explain how he or she is changed by his or her experiences.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her head was shaking gently, as if she was denying everything she saw, everything she was experiencing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He asked me about my experiences and genuinely listened to what I told him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

No man knows, till he experiences it, what it is to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Nobody would want you, even if you were interested in experiencing it." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He wondered, then, if the others who had remained on Earth experienced the void this way. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an African-American I have experienced beautiful things, but the majority of the things I’ve experienced are not beautiful. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How could she not be? All those experiences...,” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that Maddie had a good deal more experience than a lot of boys; there wasn’t a place for her. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When Harrison and Hoving and the Greek experts first confronted the kouros, they experienced waves of repulsion and words popping into their heads, and Harrison blurted out, “I’m sorry to hear that.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

My faith was buttressed by a book by Jacques Maritain rather than by the experience of worship at a Lenten service with classmates or serving at some old lady’s funeral. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the third day, it began to be something of a frustrating experience. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I look up closure and it says: the state of experiencing an emotional conclusion to a difficult life event such as the death of loved one. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence it assailed not only his ears but his eyes; as he stood by the inert TV set he experienced the silence as visible and, in its own way, alive. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Ah. You’re thinking, Mitch. But detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, the Grimké sisters were invited by the American Anti-Slavery Society to discuss their experiences with slavery with small groups of women in private parlors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There is no better way to teach than to provide some firsthand experience and a little fun. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, my backpack experienced a non-passive failure, splitting across the seam holding the main pocket together. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In my experience, when you lose somebody you care about, they stay gone. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was more than a booby without experience; he was desperate to feel important. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“No, no,” he goes, the way parents do when they try to tell you you’re wrong about something you happen to have firsthand experience of. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure this is not the proper protocol for applying for a position, but I figured why not. Here is my resume as well as my references. I have several years of secretarial experience.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As if they'd never cried together in fear when Nathan was arrested, nor experienced relief when my father had gotten him released. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When she worked on the quilt, head bent, awkward fingers guiding the needle carefully through the material, she experienced a strange, tender feeling that was new to her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the women were younger than she, half were older; they had shared no experience that she could recall, except one female with whom she had quarreled steadily all through grammar school. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This would be Janice’s first time in an integrated setting—her first time away from her hometown, in fact—but Mary believed she would be up for the challenge and find it an invaluable experience. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Now he also experienced belatedly, for once in his life, the strongest and strangest passion; he suffered tre-mendously through it and yet was uplifted, in some way renewed and richer. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take no one’s word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

We know from experience that the satisfactions of betrayal are scarcely worth it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Increasingly, the nation’s richest are spending their money on personal services or exclusive experiences and isolating themselves from the masses in ways that go beyond building gated walls. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I ask myself if my adventures, such as they are, equal experience. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know from my own personal experience working as a team can bring a lot of pressure, especially when you are a star athlete. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Enabling virtually all citizens to experience noteworthy events simultaneously and in entertaining form, radio created a vast common culture in America, arguably the first true mass culture the world had ever seen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always to be the only African, except for menial workers, to be regarded at best as a curiosity and at worst as an interloper, is not a congenial experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his experience in chemistry, Gold was able to follow the basic science. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons that have more to do with class—and often racial—prejudice than with actual experience, they tend to fear and distrust the category of people from which they recruit their workers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had worked on fund-raising for the Southern Prisoners Defense Committee almost as soon as I started there, so I had some experience asking for money to support our work. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Georgia O’Keeffe called some of her works “equivalents” because their forms were abstracted in a way that gave the emotional parallel of the source experience. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

My skills had improved under my father's tutelage, and I could now perform the tasks of a more experienced craftsman. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A few days after the barn-raising a letter came from Shadrach Yale in which he too discussed General McClellan, from the viewpoint of a young soldier who had just known his first experience under fire. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kind of like a supernova rather than a black hole—the opposite of having your balls stepped on, as similar as the experiences may actually be. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The heavily scheduled middle- class child is exposed to a constantly shifting set of experiences. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered if at any point they would experience some twinge of charity or remorse and send over a peace offering—a brownie, perhaps, or a hot dog—but they did not. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All of his life’s experience told him that if he left his feet, he would fall, or in the case of water, sink. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The concept of death is simple: it is when a living thing no longer entertains experience. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, I think they were being more lenient than usual because they knew how much I’d wanted the social experience of high school after my lonely year in private school. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Later I learned from Pete Athans that shortly after he had injected Beck with dexamethasone, the Texan experienced an astonishing recovery. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were among the first Indigenous peoples on the Eastern Seaboard to experience what can accurately be called an invasion of European colonizers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence and the Rad Lab, he observed waspishly, had “absolutely no experience in reactor design or operation.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Bod had not experienced total darkness for many years. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But time and shared experiences got them used to being husband and wife. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, even our cognitive abilities as adults are heavily influenced by the social environment that we experienced during childhood, making it hard to discern any influence of preexisting genetic differences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To my certain knowledge, many people conceal experiences for fear of ridicule. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had wanted to record a cell phone video to document our feelings about our experience that day. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It is a humiliating experience to watch the fear and disgust on ordinary citizens’ faces when they watch a convict go by. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her training began. She received well, as you do. She was so enthusiastic. So delighted to experience new things. I remember her laughter ...” His voice faltered and trailed off. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I had had more experiences than a dozen men. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on some level, I expected a brand- new Birmingham—a friendlier and more accommodating Birmingham, where my children could experience the freedom that had been lacking for me as a child. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Their “I was raised with nuthin’ and went to Harvard anyway” experience was the criterion that white editors used to hire them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Hyatt, a Navy doctor working with the National Cancer Institute, had experienced this phenomenon firsthand. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, he jumped right into this aggressive spiel about how he was fully aware Stan's hadn’t been the only death premonition I’d experienced. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In interviews with one hundred residents of two Tallahassee, Florida, communities, researchers found that nearly every one of them had experienced or expected to experience the return of a family member from prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the Depression, when wrenching need narrowed the parameters of experience as never before, the liberation offered by the racehorse was, to young men like Pollard and Woolf, a siren song. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deeper I got into the experience of being First Lady, the more emboldened I felt to speak honestly and directly about what it meant to be marginalized by race and gender. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No doubt her time in the Underworld had given her enough ghost experiences for two lifetimes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Could I experience a near collision with the cart while you perhaps see me swerve around nothing and pedal cheerfully on toward the town of Vinci? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, though the idea of using a cylinder and piston went back to Guericke, there was no recent experience of combining this with steam in England. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In a strange way we seemed to be vying for the worst experience. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Indeed. Who knew spending time in your local library could be such a rewarding experience?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In a Human Resources kinda way I'm defined as 19 w/ one year of experience. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baldwin, in writing and publishing that story, gave me permission to write about my own experiences. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

My first experience with a girl seemed sad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had only marginally more experience with cake than Sarai did, so this was one of the things they made up between them “however they liked.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Navid was experiencing a similar issue, but, unlike me, he didn’t seem to mind. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be seeing Rufus like this, but I had to know he was okay, even if it ruins the experience a little bit. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The experience of watching was ruined, time and time again, by an interminable explanation of how things were put together. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s making you a better person,” she says, “and someday this experience will help you.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

They went in groups in a big four-engine heavy bomber, to give them experience calculating unplanned routes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

So he nominated Derby, praising him for his maturity and long experience in dealing with people. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He later wrote about his experiences and commissioned artists to depict the scenes he described. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I love him and I hope his time at Ox­ford was a rich experience. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Burger was not allowed to speak of his experience with the Gestapo. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He’s running for state senate next year, even though he has no political experience. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And yet surely there is nothing new about experience? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The experience was quite different from lying on the floor. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days I was convinced I could sense something or I experienced an uncanny mystical feeling but it won’t make the six o’clock news if I tell you I was always wrong. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of truly wishing to end one’s own life is a concept completely foreign to most post-mortals, because we can’t experience the level of pain and despair that so seasoned the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When she knew he was going to visit her, she made it a point to be out and to come in glowing as from some incredible experience. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She did not like the darkness, which was more complete than anything she had ever experienced—far darker, certainly, than any moonless night in Texas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

With a walk-up, War Admiral would have the added edge of performing a start at which he was superb and experienced, while Seabiscuit would be trying it for the first time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time there may have been no precise form of words; in fact, she may have experienced nothing more than impatience to begin writing again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They shared their experiences, and I learned that there was so much discrimination toward all kinds of minorities in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-two years old, born in Ireland in 1868; his family emigrated to the United States in 1871 and in August that year moved to Chicago, just in time to experience the Great Fire. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He told me Baba had drawn the blueprints himself despite the fact that he’d had no architectural experience at all. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every time his music is performed it lives again, fresh, newly awoken, sometimes interpreted surprisingly or unexpectedly but always experienced in the here and now. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Over the years, the work and experience had noticeably transformed Roosevelt’s physical appearance. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The irony was that this was the nicest campsite I experienced anywhere along the AT, and it was the one place I camped without Katz. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

What happened in that house—I’ve never experienced anything so savage, anything so inhuman. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now I know that for those who were there, especially those with intense exposure to the war zone, the experience never truly stops for them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The subject of this unique experience grew into manhood with a hairless, pecan-shaped head and a face that featured, instead of a mouth, an enormous oval cavity below the nose. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

His father, an experienced and extremely successful doctor, had not been able to save her. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to describe loss to someone who has never experienced it, impossible to explain all the ways it changes you. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What makes it so awkward is that I’ve never experienced anything like this before. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The men experienced reduction in the dopamine transporter, a protein, as compared to a control group of nine men who were not compulsive Internet users. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thus, according to the American College Dictionary, a fact is ‘something that actually exists; reality’ and also, or alternatively, ‘a truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I realized that for most of them, this was the first time they were experiencing the absolute magic of seeing themselves transformed by a story. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And if you look even more closely at those long years of preparation, you’ll find an experience that, in the context of hockey players and Bill Joy and world-class violinists, sounds awfully familiar. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I managed a bit of enthusiasm for that line, backed up as it was by my experience with pretty much the entire Stokum population. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth; but I experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers, and less withering dread of oppression. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sensing that Bobby felt insecure, Nigro tried to reassure the boy and explained how important it was for him to gain competitive experience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I am very upset, you have no idea of how we both feel today, after such a terrible experience, coming home and finding you gone like that. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

This trip and being a Freedom Writer are the most wonderful experiences of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If you felt that millions of others experienced life as deeply as you, but differently, you’d see that what you’re doing doesn’t help. Something of a more fundamental nature. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But atypical. In my experience, most Divergent can’t resist the truth serum. I wonder why you can.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But he told me that he didn't realize how much the experience had terrified him until he left prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The women who were older and more experienced not only clapped several times before they caught their pestles but also made elaborate “thank you” gestures, all in harmony with the songs they sang. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Although they were experienced winter hikers and were well equipped, they couldn’t have imagined what they were letting themselves in for. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Racial segregation rendered black experience largely invisible to whites, making it easier for whites to maintain racial stereotypes about black values and culture. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“This is the chart of physical pain. I want you to tell me, right now, from a scale of zero to ten, are you experiencing any physical pain?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I would like to experience this ‘date’ phenomenon.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t know, maybe your experience differed from mine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Writing empowered European societies by facilitating political administration and economic exchanges, motivating and guiding exploration and conquest, and making available a range of information and human experience extending into remote places and times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like Cheryl, I had witnessed, been through, and experienced too much in my life at such a young age to give up on my future. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The experience had confirmed to Lydia that they’d make good roommates at NYU, which both of them had chosen as their top pick for college. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In Montaigne’s case this resulted in a peculiar emphasis on the subjectivity of what we know, its dependence on our personal experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Always he had assumed that throughout his psyche he experienced the android as a clever machine—as in his conscious view. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He then turned to Roberto and continued: “So you have experience at Main Street School...” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He makes us wait a few beats, and then he says, “What is the taste of human experience?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Another plus of parachuting experience was that early cosmonauts had to parachute thousands of feet after reentering the Earth's atmosphere. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, a bricklayer named George Bowman found the experience of working for Holmes somewhat chilling. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“The explanations are difficult. The whole thing is so beyond one’s experience. But I tried. And she listened carefully. Her eyes were very luminous, I remember.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how you ask me about running? How you talk about the finish line? How it’s some mystical thing that you wish you could experience?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Actually, what I wish is that I were there with her, touring colleges and having a normal senior-year experience. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

If you have, you know that it is a mystical experience. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He and his friends backed up while Hygeia and her snake underwent a violent religious experience. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As a seventeen-year-old, she had wisdom and experience, as well as an anatomy book that fascinated me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wish this was the first time I heard something like this but unfortunately I've experienced it and so have other black actors I know. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

What happened—I don’t dare call it a memory—was a psychic experience or a hallucination. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His color had deepened with whisky and vehemence, and perhaps at being able to talk to someone with a little likeness of experience. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t help it with all the experience playing all night long. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But it was becoming such a profound personal experience, it haunted even my dreams. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pages and pages of observations, recounting his experiences, mostly so he will not forget them but also to capture something of the circus on paper, something he can hold on to. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Possibly his experience with the bounty hunter Phil Resch had altered some minute synapsis in him, had closed one neurological switch and opened another. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Fellow composer Gustav Mahler described hearing this as the ‘greatest and most soul-wrenching experience of my life’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe it — in the middle of this horrible experience, Jeffrey had thought of me and had even managed to find me a box of my favorite candy. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I am about to tell must be the experience of very many in this nation where so many wander and come back. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t have been dedicated to anyone else, since it was Zoey’s experiences in middle school that inspired me to write the book. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

You don't really know how attached you are until you move away, until you've experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In Theodore’s words, they were all “very much irritated by the harrowing experience.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I’d had enough experience at working hogs that now I could generally look down and laugh at them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the world is divided, experience teaches, into two parts: things to be murdered, and things that would hinder the murder of things: and the Geats might reasonably be defined either way. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things I learned from experience or from Gale, and then the information I picked up when I was training for the Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was experiencing jolts of anxiety, nagging doubts: He could not shake off the fear that it was all going to go wrong. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s laughable to think that Nathan—who, from what I can tell, hasn’t gone on a date since eighth grade—would be speaking from experience. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Enough of the matchmaking, though I appreciate your looking out for me, Anna. Now, how about sharing your experiences?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

While on this latest tour, he explains, he had a cool experience related to technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The experience feels so familiar and so foreign at the same time. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“So,” Jacqui says to me, “is this part of the urban river experience, or are we lost?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The people who try their luck and don’t fare well will generally be quiet about their experiences. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Katya Polunina, the senior mechanic who became the regiment’s historian, the women often flew in pairs with a male pilot because the men had more experience. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Climbing down was an odd experience of scrambling nearly sideways. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces were pinched, their expressions indrawn as though they felt themselves being dragged down the jail stairway, felt their own heads bumping against the steps, experiencing the terror . Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my first use-of-force incident, and the experience was heady. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, I experienced that surreal feeling of having a dream come true. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In my humble experience, most don’t really know what they’re talking about, but presumably some do. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leap of the imagination is sometimes experienced as a flash of inspiration, but only rarely does a new idea emerge full-blown like Athena from the head of Zeus. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not yet thirty, she’d already worked on a presidential campaign and also for Hillary Clinton when she was First Lady, which made her experience doubly relevant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Or we might skip ahead and never experience the good that comes out of the hard moment we’re living through. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For many hours, balancing on the edge of the surprises of a war with no future, in rhymed verse he resolved his experience on the shores of death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The majority of my students were reluctant to share their experiences, so arrangements were made with the audiovisual department. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But despite the fact that we held the same rank, Manet had more hands-on experience in the Fishery than any dozen higher-ranking students combined. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was an experienced spy and courier for KGB agents in New York, and she was in New Mexico to meet Ted Hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knows from experience how much noise a person walking on them makes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m in my Zen mode, trying to make this whole thing a spiritual experience. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though I was experiencing it, I could not believe it. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hands-on experience is best, especially if the student is deaf. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“We all bonded from this experience,” J. explained as the four of them shared a bag of cashews a few months later. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and do too little. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I had performed well at Duke on the college circuit, competing at domestic and international competitions was a whole different experience. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

What jobs or experience had he had which would be helpful to him as an astronaut? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in my experience, it rarely seems to give you exactly what you need at the exact moment that you need it.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I probably experienced less culture shock in Morocco than I had when I first arrived at Duke. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

From his perspective and years of experience exploring the Amazon jungle, the low rations and hardships were typical. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

This young woman had applied for the vacancy with the most dubious of references, which spelt out to any experienced butler that she had left her previous situation under something of a cloud. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the experience I gained there, I felt ready to go off on my own. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fascinating experience to follow a year spent executing American policies as a soldier overseas with one watching how those policies are formulated. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She was glad she had experience in these matters. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He found that the men couldn’t forget their in-country years, and that the experience had isolated them from their friends, their family, and even from whom they’d been before going to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t understand why these Deckers aren’t home with loved ones, particularly those two teen boys today, who, as they were leaving, talked about how underwhelming the virtual reality experience was. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As far as he was concerned, there were only two sources of knowledge: reason on the one hand, and on the other sense experience, memory and testimony, all of which established matters of fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t she grand? Well, class, this is your chance. Immerse yourself in this experience. Have a listen to her story.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His natural empathy and experience with the horses of the bullring circuit had given him insight into the minds of ailing, nervous horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of her experiences here had been dreadful. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"Having been through a rather unusual experience for an SIS officer, few of whom have ever fallen into enemy hands, I found myself, for a short while, a bit of a celebrity," Blake said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us; a personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The Smith Rooming House was getting ready to open: “experienced chambermaids wanted.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A good way of bringing this about in my experience is to back off slowly as you are mak­ing your noises. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

François was stern, demanding instant obedience, and by virtue of his whip receiving instant obedience; while Dave, who was an experienced wheeler, nipped Buck’s hind quarters whenever he was in error. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

As modestly as we lived at home, I never felt poor because our lives were so rich with experience. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was stoked to share this new experience with her. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, there is an extremely wide range of experience—with nuclear accelerators and atomic clocks, for example—in precise quantitative agreement with special relativity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had a panic attack from the most mild and natural illegal substance on the market, then it was safe to say I would experience a psychotic break on a hallucinogenic. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And I am someone who does not let inconsequential things like boys and neardeath experiences stop her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

What she found most difficult was talking about a personal experience for five minutes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The other affidavit was from a defense attorney who had extensive experience in state prosecutions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thomas Jones had experienced enough excitement for one day. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I’m experiencing here is a good beginning to an interesting life, and that’s the reason—the only reason—why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Only ten years after the passage and ratification of the Constitution, however, what were treasonable or seditious acts remained blurry and more problematic judgments without the historical sanction that only experience could provide. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That’s the principle of vaccination: to stimulate our antibody production without our having to go through the actual experience of the disease, by inoculating us with a dead or weakened strain of microbe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

You become compressed in the direction of motion, your mass increases, and time, as you experience it, slows down, a breathtaking consequence of traveling close to the speed of light called time dilation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The insects are older than people, they have more experience at surviving, and there are a lot more of them than there are of us. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That and our shared experience of having parents who don't let us invite friends over. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Feldman has also reached some of his own conclusions about honesty, based more on his experience than the data. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Tyson wasn’t too keen on the idea of getting back in a chariot after our first experience, but he was happy to let me team up with Annabeth. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Opinion, experience and persuasion were necessarily unreliable and unsatisfactory; knowledge had to be built on firmer foundations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Take no one’s word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

To be honest, due to my nine months of experience, my shifts fluctuate from night to day week after week. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Later, some people found religious significance in the men’s experience. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

His experience in India had left him with a taste for spiritual endeavors. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’s pulling away, and the anguish I feel over it might be the worst thing I’ve ever experienced. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

What had always looked so smooth and sleek on the horizon was a rough adventure when experienced from the prow of the Dauntless. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was one more of those experiences she says gave her nightmares for years. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Take it from someone who has gone through big changes, someone who’s experienced the loss of love,” Mom says. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But experienced players can easily play very high notes that inexperienced players have trouble playing well. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

From this experience, Alvarez drew the lifelong lesson that “a scientist can stay active as he grows older only by staying in touch with the youngest generation.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It framed my experience of eating and sleeping and washing; it named the season and the hour. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

These and other inanimate things she saw and experienced. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I hope you can find a little consolation from the universality of this experience. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And it sent federal examiners to counties in the South and elsewhere “where past experience” had shown that federal action was needed to register all eligible voters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’d be doing something, not just buying something. It’s an even better way to experience how huge six million is.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He just wasn’t sure if he was supposed to tell Annie about his lack of experience. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Busy as she was with her nursing career, she also worried about whether she could truly give us the care we needed, especially after the disruption we’d experienced with Shanon. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The experience, she said, made her feel great. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The shock that Mulch had experienced communicated itself to his bowels, and they decided the excess air had to go. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The first astronauts, those chosen few, experienced what once was only found in science fiction books. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He experienced them, the others, incorporated the babble of their thoughts, heard in his own brain the noise of their many individual existences. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hobbes would not have said that we derive our knowledge of the kings of France from authority; he would have said we derive it immediately from testimony and, ultimately, from sense experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But Anthony had not experienced many of the frustrations and inequities that married women had to endure. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After spending half the day at National, we went to visit a small private college and a big university so we could experience how different they were. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This has not been found to agree with experience, unless that turns out to be the explanation for the people who are supposed to have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the same kind of jittery excitement that I experienced every Christmas morning in anticipation of all those gifts. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sections of Michigan, Kentucky, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri are all experiencing a rain of chemicals in the name of beetle control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know what happened. It was like . . . something was controlling my body. I’m sorry. . . Thomas took a deep breath, sure he’d never experience something so disturbing and uncomfortable again. He hoped. “ The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

An experienced fisherman would walk to the end of the plank, launching the tag into the shark’s dorsal fin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It should be stressed that these works wouldn’t have been easy to read even for an experienced adult player: They aren’t accessible unless a person has the drive to excel in the abstraction of chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Had not the Secretary of the Young Women’s Fordian Association asked her to give a lecture about her experiences? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And only then can you say, ‘All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.’ Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They encouraged him, his parents, to have experiences with girls but to be careful. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Also, sound effects can be added to enhance the action or bring a fuller meaning or experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Percy guessed they’d had experience with the Twelfth Legion before, and it hadn’t worked out well for them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even among those who signed, the experience of being forced to affirm one’s political loyalty was so repugnant that the real issue became whether to stay at Berkeley at all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The people inside congratulate me on my victory/near-death experience on this wild little bus driving a hundred miles an hour through the Puerto Rican countryside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I'm sorry for whatever you must have experienced in that awful moment when you disappeared. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hans and his friends would become haunted by their war experiences. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I never knew going to the bathroom could be such an enjoyable experience! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Half of the volunteers were told to try to remember and relive a particularly stressful experience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was my first experience with the high life, associated in my mind with decaying European aristocracy. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Certainly not any sight or experience or sensation that I hadn’t had a thousand times already. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though Leper had learned it while in captivity, far from Devon or Vermont or any experience we had in common, as though it were in Japanese. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The brutality of it was stunning,” said Alfons, “but I also experienced an unmistakable feeling of excitement.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve previously made the comment that any experienced public speaker can feel his audience’s reactions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they experienced others’ violent deaths—both American and Vietnamese—their belief system shattered. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I never got used to that feeling—no one ever does—but I did experience it many times, and eventually learned what it was: electric shock. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple question that went to the heart of life as Yali experienced it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A girl, whose name I will not repeat, had her first under-the-bra experience at Rosie’s while making out between the pinball machines. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She had no idea what he was experiencing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Three years of combat experience tells Washburn that he is in trouble; Confederate cavalrymen have found his infantry. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Holly had enough on-the-job experience to realize that she was under fire, and immediately curled her elfin frame into a ball, minimizing the target. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But underneath it all, I felt a little tinge of sorrow, because I realized that everything I’d just experienced was now over. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even before lunch on our first day back, we had all begun to experience a hell we could not have imagined. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

British readers of The New Yorker who assume that this august publication is in constant ignorant error when it allows “1980’s” evidently have no experience of how that famously punctilious peri-odical operates editorially. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Built into a circular room, and controlled by a computer, the arm could be made to turn at whatever speed was necessary to imitate the loads we would experience under various flight conditions. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is all you experience day after day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Such absolute, unjaded wonder he had never experienced in his life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had a lot of experience dealing with my mother when she got mad at me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like a railroad, the museum permitted them to see the rest of the country beyond their small experience, from Florida to Maine to the western frontier. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you usually experience this much pain and bleeding from the Calm Control?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After such an experience he would sometimes loiter and swim for the rest of the day. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelton and I grumble and moan about it, trying to filter our whole experience with Henry through this new lens, and decide it’s not worth it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Without a full pack, I walked straight up it without stopping—a novel and gratifying experience. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

That was not unusual for a dress rehearsal, in Volpe’s experience, but also no cause for great optimism. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

For each NPC my avatar defeated, I would earn a few meager experience points and, usually, a handful of copper or silver coins dropped by my slain foes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And one day, I had my own experience of being perceived as “bad” simply because I was black. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 2005, The New York Times published a series of articles on class in America, a dimension of the national experience that tends to go unexamined, if acknowledged at all. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The atheist argues ‘a priori’; the philosopher argues ‘by the Event’, in other words from experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We take the bus to the museum, “for the experience,” Mama says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hupfer, has it been your experience that I have ever forgotten anything?” asked Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“This action closes a chapter in the American experience.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Like those hidden, precocious adolescents who have no real-life sexual experiences, I read a great deal of romantic fiction. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on to mock the speech, pointing out that most of the men in the legislature were married and had experience dealing with women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My determination, enthusiasm and youth were no match for Segal’s vast experience and skill. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that experience did not prepare me for the task of writing these pages where my own life is the subject. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this definition, though, going to the ballet is an experiment, while learning that the seats are uncomfortable and the drinks sold in the bar overpriced is a chance experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This experience left me with the conclusion that our first president, besides having frizzy hair, a large red hooked nose, and apple cheeks, had a prissy, even old-ladyish mouth and a double chin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results both strange and unique. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

That was a very traumatic experience—for all of you, I might add. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lingering sweat from the owner’s feet mingled with hers, causing her heart to race; it was the closest thing she had ever experienced to the touch of a man. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they tried to absorb their lessons and experience, and to synchronize their efforts, they lived in constant fear of making any of the many egregious errors Bolles kept pointing out to them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bad news: Surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t really get to experience the fun time. He’s probably, like, living from where he left off.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

No matter how valiantly a woman proves herself in battle, her experience of war will always differ from a man’s experience, because she is a woman. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I simply say, ‘There is no experience like having children.’ Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such experiences created the assumption that the very smallest creatures were as complex as the largest, and had the same sorts of organs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The lesson I learned after a while, through awful experiences and Grandma’s lectures, was that nobody was ever coming to rescue me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Nadine explained that Reggie’s lawyer had called and said that Reggie could be interviewed but would only talk about the risks of texting and driving, not about his experience in the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It is a guess based on a lifetime’s experience with robots. You had better rely on such a guess, Stephen.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I hated that I couldn’t make it through a Nowruz party without experiencing Mood Slingshot Maneuvers. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jonas had never seen rain, though he had experienced it often in the memories. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I experience my own confusion as I realize what I’ve said is entirely true, and the noble impulse that carried me across the square is replaced by despair. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They had a slew of questions, and it felt good to be able to talk with young people about my experience. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Diligence in spraying had a similarly unsatisfactory reward in the eastern Sudan, where cotton growers had a bitter experience with DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Not that he didn’t get any guidance: Percy Weasley was eager to share his experience. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Strict parents, bad grades, or stupid boyfriends—my friends' complaints seemed so unimportant and meaningless compared to what Martin was experiencing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard people say that after a particularly bad experience with tequila, just the smell of it can make them barf. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The letters didn’t pour in at the level experienced by Hollywood stars, but hardly a day would go by that several pieces of request mail did not arrive at 560 Lincoln Place. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My partner showed that our experience had reached its climax by getting up abruptly, and my main concern was how to get home quickly. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I want a experienced mechanic to run this and keep the works in good shape,’ Patterson said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Many experience an existential angst associated with their permanent social exclusion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Alba would come running to embrace her with consoling whispers, since they both knew from long experience that the only cure for asthma is the prolonged embrace of a loved one. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I considered myself to be genuinely misunderstood because my parents and I were not having the same life experiences: They had not grown up in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It helps they’ve given People an exclusive—a few generic quotes about how much Alex “cherishes” his friendship with Henry and their “shared life experience” as sons of world leaders. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Pilots and navigators, many of them already experienced flight instructors, were all sure that the famous Marina Raskova might be able to influence the highest levels of government in a way that they could not. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, When we began our lesson about the importance of racial tolerance, I had no idea that that lesson would be a life-altering experience. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And at the end of the day the sergeant had instructed him to join the flight—just for the experience. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“But do you think that you could have had a better experience?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Here Hickock revealed his pedophiliac tendencies, and after describing several sample experiences, wrote: I know it is wrong. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. Like many amateurs, Dr. Phil assumed that the only proper subject for art was a picturesque landscape that had nothing to do with his experience. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There is a key difference between Galileo and his opponents: both appealed to experience, but Galileo had engaged in a programme of experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At first sight, Pascal’s claim that progress has been continuous seems nonsense: we would accumulate experience from generation to generation only if we had a reliable way of recording and transmitting it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His techniques were too new, his skills too great, the men around him too naïve, as if they had never before experienced a falsehood. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At the university, just a few miles from his back-alley boardinghouse on Invalidenstrasse, Mendel began to experience the intellectual baptism that he had so ardently sought in Brno. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My palms were sweaty and I felt as though I had just gone through the same experience again. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But it would be dangerous to rely on examples such as this to support an oversimplified view of the role of experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“This boy has certainly caught the essence of a hard experience here,” he said, reaching for his handkerchief. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Part of her wanted to tell Lexie, to reveal her membership in this exclusive club of the experienced, to which they both now belonged. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“People want a VIP experience, not dusty décor and uninspired recipes.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It was an experience, abba. The way Danny had to answer his father’s questions like that in front of everybody. I thought that was terrible.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was the desolation of having found the place that fits, the one true place, and experiencing the first heady sigh of rightness before being torn away and cast back into random, lonely scatter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My whole project, after all, was to keep one foot in and the other out, to be selfconsciously aware that what I was doing was an experience, not my life. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t risk putting a child through what she had experienced. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In doing so, he left behind two children, a wife who had no college degree or work experience, and a mortgage. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There were a few trying experiences such as being blocked from passage to class by a few rough, tough-looking sideburners, boys who I’m sure if separated would not attack a mouse. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Adams saw it, he had been prepared, by both experience and training, to perform a central role in the unfolding drama of winning and securing the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but still, if you can avoid it…” said Harry, who had experienced enough pain not to be keen for more. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The Black Tips’ lieutenant might have wrinkles creasing the corners of his eyes and burgeoning jowls beneath his sideburns, but he looked confident, experienced. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ms. G’s class, a camp experience with my church, and my parents’ continued encouragement helped me to see the mess I was making of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

María agrees that it’s something we should experience, since it’s our first trip to Puerto Rico. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I hoped to learn from what Hillary had shared with me about her own experiences, to leave the politics to Barack and focus my own efforts elsewhere. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He never even seemed to experience embarrassment the way that I did. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Distantly connected to royalty, she was of some rank herself, of privilege rather than experience, a flight officer; but she was said to work as diligently at her wireless set as any self-made shop girl. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“When they did die, I experienced a peace I never knew. I could tell the moment they left me, like a puff of energy was turned loose,” she said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It sounded like you spoke from personal experience.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And baseball in Seattle had recently experienced a major setback—one of many more to come—when the wooden stands at the Indians’ ballpark, Dugdale Park, burned to the ground in July 1932. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Marina Raskova was less experienced as a pilot than as a navigator, and as the commander of the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment, she too had to learn to fly this difficult plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The experience of the hop growers in Washington and Idaho is an example. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now I began to experience a tendency in the West that perhaps I am too old to accept. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she did have experience with regular dogs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because of our experience together, we have always been close and kept in touch through the years. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In his experience, scythes were always solitary, never traveling together. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The experience he gained in judging horses would be invaluable to him later, though he would have scoffed at the idea at the time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The College was dedicated to improving the science of medicine, and its member physicians were among the best educated and most experienced doctors in the United States. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I was certain it would experience a non-passive failure if I tried to climb it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In my experience, that many people encircling another guy usually ends in a trip to the nurse’s office, or worse, to the hospital for stitches. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And this, in turn, meant that Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison arrived at the dinner with different agendas, different experiences, and different stories to tell. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

My prior experience with young men was to hear them swear “Christ almighty in the craphouse!” at any dress with too many buttons. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As one of Henrietta’s relatives said to me, “If you pretty up how people spoke and change the things they said, that’s dishonest. It’s taking away their lives, their experiences, and their selves.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The black men and women were mumbling quietly among themselves; they had not known one another before they had come here, but now their timidity and shame were wearing off and they were exchanging experiences. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d had some pretty bad experiences with Cyclopes, but Tyson was a sweetheart. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, Percy looked so troubled by his experience with those imprisoned sea creatures, she thought maybe he could use a rest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At Camp Jupiter, Percy had recounted their trip to Alaska, which sounded as harrowing as anything Piper had experienced. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To be relaxed, warm, and part of the winter wilderness is an unforgettable experience. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most uncomfortable thing I was ever planning to experience was picture day. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was about traveling to Rio with all the other American athletes and experiencing the excitement of the Olympic Village. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But I never see a more experienced associate do this—first, because the customers are often annoyed to have their shopping dazes interrupted and, second, because we have far more pressing things to do. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although demographic shifts were a normal part of life in America at the time, the population swell experienced by the North End made it one of the busiest and liveliest places in the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In my experience, the schools never called my parents to discuss me, probably because of the language barrier. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After all, what can we trust if not our own experience? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. She has had some experience, and got a prize for a tale in the Blarneystone Banner.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t use him. In this business I need someone who can speak English and with experience. What about you?” he said, pointing at Roberto. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The feeling of being flung into that whirling world of water is one I fervently hope never to experience again. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

This book focuses on the experience of African American men in the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What I lacked in experience, I made up for with heart and determination. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It is, as it happens, an instance from my own experience, an episode that took place before the war, around 1935. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The curve, however, was no sooner rounded than Jethro discovered that the vague dread he had experienced in passing the cabin had now become a reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have knowledge and experience to pool to do for ourselves! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew from past experiences not to question Sam because that would make him more upset. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When they began to rehearse again, “their added life experience, their love for each other, their rivalries, it all enriched it.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Only Father seemed strangely unmoved by the experience. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It probably seemed like I was belittling a moment they'd been waiting years to experience. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I remember wondering how I could be so awkward about this stuff, but these girls — raised in the same town as me, with basically the same exact social experiences I had — could be so cool. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a nineteenth-century memoir on an expedition in Africa, there is a story by David Livingston about his own experience of near-death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hillary graciously shared wisdom over the phone, walking me through her experience picking out a school for Chelsea. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

What do mothers and children who have experienced them think? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

An aesthetic response or experience concerns the nature of beauty, art, and taste. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Because it has been a wonderful experience teaching you.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence was once again making fresh footprints into a new world, an experience he had not enjoyed since the construction of the twenty- seven-inch cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She was setting him a test he was too experienced, too wary, to refuse. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had always looked up to this woman, but here she was, making assumptions about me when she had no idea what I was experiencing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Therefore, it has been seen, and experience will show, that the Spanish cannot withstand French cavalry and that Spanish infantrymen can destroy the Swiss. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have an upper register, so to speak, but only the middle range of our shared experience and ways of behaving, of joking around. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If drowning was to be his last experience, then let him experience it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Often, in fact, these people experienced management as an obstacle to getting the job done as it should be done. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That language was pioneered in English, where, for example, ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning during the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Richard was going to learn from this experience, she was sure. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We will do the lower-end work, and they will do the things that require critical judgment and experience, close to the market.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a window into what women experience to look good on a regular basis. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Driving through Peshawar with so much money in a paper bag was a slightly frightening experience. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You see, darling, I had one experience of waiting to be married.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head slightly, trying to seem very experienced. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sausun, rocking back and forth with her arms wrapped around her knees and a frown on her face as if she’s experiencing menstrual cramps right in front of everyone, clips her Qur’anic answers in staccato. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

And, of course, he felt he had more than enough administrative experience in large projects to oversee electromagnetic separation, plutonium, and the chain-reaction pile without overstretching himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Most had never seen the inside of a camp but then again, I had never cooked a meal, so it wasn’t like any of us were winning in the life experience department. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Like the realists, we must insist that it is not so difficult to tell good science from bad, as long as you agree that knowledge should be carefully and systematically tested against experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They knew from many years of medical experience with Garfield that he had a history of stomach problems. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I knew from experience she was holding something back. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

What could a bunch of temporary colonels do without loyal, honest, experienced advisers! The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some who came were kindly, most had a ready, sterile sympathy, and all went away with the unmaskable relief that men experience when they see others who have fared worse than themselves. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie’s assessment made total sense considering my experiences with this were recent and only happened at competitions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Refers to the fires of hell that those who forsake Christ in favor of video games will experience. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“There is no need to worry. Jewel is an experienced teacher,” Kaisa said, stroking the black mare’s neck. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had learned from experience that she needed about a third of her players to be well-adjusted kids from stable families. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At that point, I realized that I was experiencing heat hallucinations for the first time in my life. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Leo had heard all about his near-death experience in the nymphaeum in Rome with Jason and Piper. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, however, Dave’s experience evidently prepared me; that has to be admitted. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In my experience, it was hard to write without your preferred tools, but impossible to write without a cigarette. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“There appeared to be no ‘pecking order,’ nobody really in command—not even Stan Livingston, the pioneer member of the crew and undoubtedly the most experienced operator,” she recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A man is taken away from other prisoners, from his experience of other people, when he is locked away in solitary confinement in the hole. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Technology has helped to alter the balance of the musical experience, favoring music listening over music making. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She said what I was experiencing were “night terrors,” and it did help me to talk about them with her. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I think I could give him a few tips from my own professional experience: his peach halves could be glossier, for instance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was so unknown, in my experience, that I wondered if he was too soft, if he gave them too much free rein. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shock of his experiences began to set in, and he was overtaken by a pounding headache and fever. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a decadent atmosphere for me whose previous experience of dating had been mixers and parlor calls from boys at prep school. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When I tried to enter school that day, I ended up experiencing the worst thing I’ve ever gone through.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life.' The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

His response to the world he confronted in the middle of the twentieth century was profound and deeply felt, but he didn’t speak to my experience as well as Colin Powell did. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Fifty yards farther down the beach George, another code talker and our most experienced radioman, waved at us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my mother and father I scorn those who attempt to create an experience of intimacy in public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tasted like tobacco and salt and the whole experience was very wet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though I'd learned suddenly to look around corners; images of past humiliations flickered through my head and I saw that they were more than separate experiences. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the silence at the beginning of this game was unlike anything Siobhan had ever experienced. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In December the exposition experienced its first death: a man named Mueller at the Mines Building, dead of a fractured skull. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But what we observed and experienced in the natural world from afar was an aggregation of dots: pixels merging to form a seamless picture. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The experience of possessing them lasted for less than a day and it threatened him with speedy death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was young still, and had not experienced death before, not in the small two-person family that she and her mother had been. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though my grandmother and I didn't ever speak about it again, it was a terrible experience that bonded us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine goes even further and maintains that experience never forces one to reject any particular belief. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willard’s success was unquestionable, but for many years she shared the limelight with one of the most eccentric, unforgettable characters in the entire American experience. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Thus, the experience of suddenly being thrust into a crowd of boys was like being dumped into a pool of piranhas. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dog with an experience like that could become a pariah in the truest sense of the word. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where had she been and what had she experienced? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Being as you got so much knowledge and experience.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers had fastened on her hand which lay outside the sheet: had she pressed mine kindly, I should at that moment have experienced true pleasure. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And at this level of experience one’s bitterness begins to be palatable, and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Coming from places that had suffered many such experiences, Europeans fully grasped the potential consequences of smallpox. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To something too small or sluggish to duplicate this experience–a snail, say–the idea that a boom box could seem to two observers to produce two different volumes of music simultaneously might seem incredible. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The experience made a profound impression on him that led him to think twice about the difference between spirituality and religion, between faith and the institutions that deliver its message. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bob Presto was giving his spiel: “Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for a truly electrifying experience?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For some attendees, whose career goals didn’t involve combat, it was a way to get a taste of what the combat experience feels like. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Those scars, everyone said, were cigarette burns inflicted by his captors during one of those experiences. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes previously, Harry had plunged his hand into this mulch, experienced a stabbing pain in the fourth finger of his right hand, and withdrawn it to see a lot of blood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

From this experience, I don’t want to try to meet him again. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t have a lot of experience with kisses. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Hi, I’m Connie Whitlock of New York One. Would you mind if we just ask you a few questions about your experience as a first time volunteer here at Helping Hand?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was thankful to have experienced them in full, as living creatures and not as items shrink-wrapped in the supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even though I was so young at the time, I can still remember a lot about that experience. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hardly enough for a cash crop, but they were learning, and in another year, after another harvest, they would be experienced old farmers and sugarers, they told each other. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since the school had links with many of the great civilizations of Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe, word of sugar and the experience of tasting its special sweetness began to spread. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In my experience, being the middle child meant straddling the best of both worlds. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Especially in the experience of Japanese archaeologists, China is regarded as the source of cultural breakthroughs in East Asia, such as agriculture, writing, metallurgy, and everything else of significance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After hearing about his cooking experience while in prison, Ariana took a chance on Marcus and gave him a job. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I did not do well in them, but the experience was valuable. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many people this would have been their first experience of a live orchestra playing what was, in all but name, classical music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I echo, trying to figure out what someone brought here might think about the experience. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Depending on a person’s life experience, they saw Reggie and his actions in slightly different lights. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They know from experience that I burst into tears at the first harsh or remonstrative word. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Pascal went further than simply insisting on the authority of experience; he argued that our knowledge of nature is capable of endless progress because it is founded in experience, and experience accumulates over time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you stand there and tell me what you didn’t mean! Never in my experience have I come across—” Now she was in for it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In turn, Dallas and Florida had come to think of most adults as trouble grown-ups, for that had been their experience, that most grown-ups they’d encountered were short-tempered, impatient, and quick to punish. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Recognition and reminiscence imply that our present and future experiences are just like our past experiences; discovery implies that we can experience something that no one has ever experienced before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In reality, I am an ageless geek, with years of personal experience, a fiercely aggressive intelligence coupled with geek wit, and the education of the best online material in the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Selling your stuff at a yard sale is a weird experience. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I felt bad about what was happening, but was not as scared as these people, who had not experienced war before. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was no way to describe to his friends what he had experienced there in the Annex room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Getting shot should be an experience from which you can draw some small pride. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her experience, when someone tried to do something for her, it came from either pity or distrust, but this simple gesture felt like what it was: a small kindness, with no strings attached. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While the Belgians were sampling Coca-Cola for the first time, Bobby, avoiding Joan’s watchful eye, drank too many bottles of Belgian beer and the next day experienced his first hangover. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Count was beginning to experience a decline of nerve. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The very thought of her lips against water—the tip of her nose touching its surface—summons up a biological craving beyond anything she has experienced. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I do mind your asking,” Mr. Curtain said coldly, but then he collected himself and said in a friendlier tone, “We both know you’ve had similar experiences, do we not, Reynard? For being different?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

You’re simply seeing the difference between those schooled by their families to present their best face to the world, and those denied that experience. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I knew from my weekend experience that the easiest way to make fast money was to carry luggage for passengers: If somebody had a heavy bag, you offered to take it to the bus. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the last 10 of it, I would say I realistically experienced the physical, mental, and emotional reality of the Stone Age. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood experienced a dramatic population influx in the 1840s, when the Irish potato famine led to a great migration to America, as tens of thousands of Irish immigrants landed in Boston. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Probably the closest I ever got to a spiritual sort of experience was during my mom’s O Brother period, which coincided with me being about eight or nine years old. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You felt some—but just a shadow of what it can be. Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Despite his limited experience with the circus, Bailey is amazed that he has never seen this tent before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never experienced it in an in-your-face, swastika way. But for all we know, it was meant for me.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Madness, in my admittedly limited experience, is accompanied by no superpowers; being mentally unwell doesn’t make you loftily intelligent any more than having the flu does. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the first six months of 1892 the city experienced nearly eight hundred violent deaths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Hence many germs have had to evolve tricks to let them spread between potential victims, and many of those tricks are what we experience as “symptoms of disease.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He regarded me as potentially a very good physicist. . . But in a certain sense, not worldly, not experienced, and not very sensible.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If this journal be true—and judging by one’s own wonderful experiences, it must be—he is also a man of great nerve. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Had we returned home in 1916, out of the suffering and the strength of our experience we might have unleashed a storm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that right? And I suppose you would know in your, what, twelve years of experience with women?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sure somewhere in your childhood, you too had an experience like ours that day; similar if not in the actual details, then inside, in the feelings. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they would have to appoint someone to head the new group, an experienced girl—white, obviously—someone whose disposition suited the sensitivity of the assignment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He thought, in the following days, about him and Eberechi in bed, how different it would be from her experience with the colonel. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A recurring bit includes one of them choking on French fries; commedia dell’arte experience helpful. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

People who had actually been teenagers in the 1980s, all now approaching old age, had the strange experience of seeing the fads and fashions of their youth embraced and studied by their grandchildren. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They had all experienced the fear of being labeled unfit to enter America. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And Siddhartha’s soul returned, died, decayed, turned into dust, experienced the troubled course of the life cycle. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Communists, I felt, had oversimplified the experience of those whom they sought to lead. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past experience taught them that blacks were last hired, first fired, especially true for black women. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"You already have sales experience working at the luggage store." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew how shocking the destruction of that world had been, for he had experienced it at first hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And Vega was back to his old self again after our experience beside the Harlem River. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

What you lack is nothing to do with experience. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She knew from personal experience how crime existed only to the degree that the law cooperated with it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Harvard volunteers were finding that their Boston experience was not turning into the exciting adventure many of them had envisioned. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Harlem in the summer was and is an experience that will always live with me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The law set up the Civil Service Commission to fill thousands of federal government jobs based on applicants' experience and ability, not their political connections. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a classic geek experience, in which the idea is everything, the environment irrelevant. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Elizabeth and Emma were both experienced at taking care of sick people. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, at other times, vast, well-constructed, apparently robust intellectual edifices are swept away with barely a murmur because, to paraphrase Vadianus, experience really can be demonstrative. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The rabbits’ anxieties and strain in climbing the down were different, therefore, from those which you, reader, will experience if you go there. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That kind of training, conducted over and over again, in combination with real-world experience, fundamentally changes the way a police officer reacts to a violent encounter. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was important to him that his children experience the hard work of farming, and the family spent the summer and school holidays there. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With his vast experience, he offered to teach me the finer points of the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once played for twenty hours straight and experienced signs of mild psychosis. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The blessings now seemed endless, and there was always something new to experience. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She had never visited the Deep South before, and on this trip, for the first time, she experienced the strict “Jim Crow” laws that enforced racial segregation throughout the South. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Estraven, however, was on the track of his luck, following what appeared to be hunch or intuition, but may have been applied experience and reasoning. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Riding upon a cat’s back was a new and unusual experience for Matthias. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He thought reason, opinion and authority should all give ground before experience, but he lacked the language in which to express this simple idea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She’d had very little experience with wealthy people, but she had never met anyone with attitudes like the Derby men seemed to have. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Please forward us your resume, including previous research experience, graduate and postgraduate transcripts, and two letters of recommendation. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two years, nine months, seven days, and two hours after Fixers are approved for public use, the world experiences its first full day without a single death. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Taking portraits of my people was such a moving experience, I felt as if my heart began to heal. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Greeks had developed a level of practical experience and technical understanding a thousand years more advanced than anyone else nearby. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I think the fact that I was an experienced officer had a lot to do with my decision. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the 1960s, my mother wrote a book about her experiences. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Just walking through the halls at school is a totally overwhelming experience. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s my near-death experience—shouldn’t I be allowed to joke about it?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Certainly a man well qualified to speak on this issue is the leader of the Wildlife Research Unit at Auburn, Alabama, Dr. Maurice F. Baker, who has had many years’ experience in the area. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I waited for him to finish reliving his experience. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, but Our Town is quite possibly the best play ever written about the totality of the human experience.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“I finally experienced it. I saw some of the people that I had wronged when I was growing up, and disrespected. And all their faces came in front of me.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I thought he felt it too, a connection, the possibility of deep friendship rooted in common experience: being afraid of the next attack, not knowing when it's coming. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Lenina suddenly felt all the sensations normally experienced at the beginning of a Violent Passion Surrogate treatment—a sense of dreadful emptiness, a breathless apprehension, a nausea. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know from experience that some things will thrive and others will wither. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

‘Grave and worthy Writers’ trumped his own experience and that of his contemporaries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

To master the art of ignoring pain, future pniese had to subject themselves to such miserable experiences as running barelegged through brambles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But neither of them had revealed very much about their classroom experiences. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quantum hypothesis violates everything our everyday experience tells us. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Kara wasn’t Muslim or a woman of color, yet she still felt an appreciation for my personal experiences, though our lives were seemingly worlds apart. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Powell’s experiences as a soldier would not permit one man and a screaming girl to scare him off. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In all gatherings he at once became the center of attraction, having a ready command of language and a constant fund of amusing anecdotes and experiences.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The experience of being so coldly lied about at trial by someone you don’t even know was one of the most disquieting parts of the trial for Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Along with reducing Cold War tensions and improving relations with the United States and other western nations, Gorbachev granted the Soviet people freedoms that they had never experienced. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Recalling our own experiences, we prepared her for an interview. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It's not like he has any experience in this area either. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

What the dreamer was experiencing, she experienced, and not as some hapless spectator. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“But you used to travel so much. You had so many experiences. Don’t you miss the world?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No way. I went only once since my tics started a few years ago, and it was not a fun experience.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In Toledo, Ohio, a similar experience caused the Superintendent of Forestry, Joseph A. Sweeney, to take a realistic look at the results of spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s not a happy story, and Molly has learned through experience that people either recoil or don’t believe her or, worse, pity her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She had seldom considered herself before, and found the experience interesting but uncomfortable, very like riding the bear, in fact. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She has to be left to the experience of the years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distance I experienced in my first year of law school made me feel lost. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The winter will be beyond anything we’ve experienced. Temperatures will be below freezing. There will be no food.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As Chaplin, the Harvard historian, has argued, New England Indians were indeed disconcerted by their first experiences with European guns: the explosion and smoke, the lack of a visible projectile. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had learned through experience that delay and heartfelt remorse were powerful tools with which he could fend off creditors for months and years, sometimes forever. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The community was always attentive and supportive; each adult had been through this experience and knew how important it was. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even dragons, in his experience, didn’t know much about dragons. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I was experiencing, he said, a series of tiny, nearly imperceptible strokes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This relationship between wavelength and speed, which is called the Doppler effect, is an everyday experience. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the moment I met her in the hallway she'd been blabbing, so excited about the hustle and bustle she'd experienced earlier in the day. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

One reason is the long time I had to keep the experience a secret. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, no, his customer was merely experiencing what Johnson called the Solemn Moment—a phenomenon familiar to insurance salesmen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, he didn’t experience the fever, chills, and night sweats that usually accompanied TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe I hadn't really been ready to speak about my experiences until so many years later, or maybe people hadn't really been ready to listen, or maybe both. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He writes a letter to M. Lefèvre upon his return, to thank him for giving his clock such a wondrous home and for the experience of the circus itself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We had thrust our daughters into all the strangeness and intensity of White House life, not knowing how it would impact them or what they’d take from the experience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No human beings, except the courageous and experienced blind, are able to sense much in a strange place where they cannot see, but with rabbits it is otherwise. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I’d had so much experience with how Jews would attack me that I usually could identify them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear and anguish unlike anything he'd ever experienced settled on Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The veterans had expected a big, prestigious design firm or architecture firm to win the contest, one headed by an experienced male. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If nothing else, the experience was good practice in the cop art of being stony-faced, of not tipping your hand. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also assume that whether or not a dream matches experience one day is independent of whether or not some other dream matches experience some other day. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is worrisome, certainly an experience any Negro wants to avoid. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How do we get up there? I've no experience at riding goats." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a sterile, feedback-barren experience with no chance to read his opponent’s body language. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the holistic educator places music and the arts in a central position in a child’s education, emphasizing the artistic and aesthetic experiences that only the arts can bring. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I looked at my experience at Kabarak as another initiation, as part of my preparation for life. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was done talking about his experience in Bosnia, I wanted to know something. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The experience had freaked me out for months. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, as he returned from shadowing someone, Victor went past Barbarossa’s shop to put up a sign Ida had written: Salesperson required, experience preferred. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Pip,” said he, “we won’t talk about ‘poor dreams;’ you know more about such things than I, having much fresher experience of that kind. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She still looked a little green from the experience. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While these grassroots initiatives and policy proposals are major achievements, they raise questions about how best to address the complex and interlocking forms of discrimination experienced by black people with criminal records. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

An avalanche comprised of a hundred thousand memories, experiences, sights, smells, sounds, and feelings swept over me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was an act of discipline, a sign of the change that was coming over me and which would return me to college a more experienced man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The experience had clearly chastened Mr Wormwood and he seemed temporarily to have lost his taste for boasting and bullying. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

That experience seemed to diminish his faith in people, and he became even more quiet and withdrawn after that. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

First, as any modern gardener or farmer still knows by experience, crop yields can be greatly increased by manure applied as fertilizer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem like a feasible outcome, just some nebulous idea thrown about by people who had never experienced this kind of heartbreak. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I can't say for sure, because I have no experience, but—well, is this what family is like? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Lawrence expected, the skills of the mass spectrograph operators improved dramatically with experience, expanding the device’s capabilities; by mid-January, a nine-hour run yielded 18 micrograms of uranium enriched to 25 percent U-235. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“In the good way. The way that gives experience.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the intervening years, music has grown from joyful servant of humankind and the Almighty to a bigger experience than both of them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I can see what you bring out in him. You don’t know this because you’ve never experienced it, but Four without you is a much different person. He’s... obsessive, explosive, insecure ...” “Obsessive?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Agnes began experiencing unusual symptoms and paid a visit to her doctor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so far beyond ordinary exhaustion that I experienced a queer detachment from my body, as if I were observing my descent from a few feet overhead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, through this experience Wang Lung learned what the young men had not taught him, that he belonged to his own kind, who have black hair and black eyes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His previous experiences with the odd device that stored and revealed thoughts and memories, though highly instructive, had also been uncomfortable. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You know, I have a queer feeling that I’ve been through this exact conversation before with someone. It’s just like the chaplain’s sensation of having experienced everything twice.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was a wonderful experience to have, but the downside was that it sheltered me from reality. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Garden paths can turn the experience of reading from an effortless glide through a sentence to a tedious two-step of little backtracks. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I wondered if her experiences had been at all like mine. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to experience all kinds of moments with him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two other areas of experience which have been extremely formative in my life since prison were first opened to me in the Norfolk Prison Colony. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s best to get an experienced one, for he relapses into silence. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my experience the process worked, in that the stories were occasionally submitted, Xeroxed, and distributed hand to hand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mark looked back at the woman, who was obviously experiencing head pain, and things began to click into place. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

This has been the most meaningful experience of my whole life, I tell her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was determined to put that experience to work. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It’s a very scary thing, manifesting without understanding what’s happening to you, though it’s a fright nearly all peculiar children experience because so few of us are born to peculiar parents.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps more striking, he had never had any administrative experience. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

These were the experiences that my gymnastics friends who were already in college were always telling me about on Snapchat and Instagram. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was far too focused and excited to be competing in my first games to let anything ruin a once in a lifetime experience. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I think of living without the fear I just experienced, and for one awful second, I am tempted. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Four months ago, Vin began experiencing muscle pains, but refused to acknowledge his weaknesses. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Immersed in my own experiences, it was with horror that I heard, toward the end of my year’s travels, that yet another tragedy had struck the Dumbledores: the death of his sister, Ariana. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Harry could tell that Ron was experiencing the same sinking feeling as himself. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Odessa established itself as a distribution point for oil field equipment and experienced more growth in a month than it had in ten years, inundated by men who were called simply boomers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra was a shrewd, capable, and experienced leader. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Pride surged in their chests as they were ushered in and seated before the desks of well-dressed black men and women who asked them questions about their experience and provided leads on jobs. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He wrote two books on his experiences, Through Hell for Hitler and A Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Germany in the 1930s. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lack of human dignity experienced by Africans is the direct result of the policy of white supremacy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, religion was a great aid to both, but not a substitute for the lessons learned from hard experience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Hillside welcomed all guests, and most particularly wanted to provide upwardly mobile blacks with the same kind of vacation experience their white counterparts enjoyed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was struck most forcefully by the discrepancy between my old assumptions and my actual experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke turned off the lights and switched the television to a cartoon, and soon the boys fell into the sort of deep sleep he hadn’t experienced in years. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But the peace was passing, too, for he saw the dust billowing from the trails of the hunting men, and he experienced the return of resentment. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beowulf experienced a few seconds of sheer panic. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is always an interesting experience since he’s six foot seven and 240 pounds of mahogany steel but has this high-pitched hyena giggle. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

People of color, because of the history of racial subjugation and exclusion, often experience success and failure vicariously through the few who achieve positions of power, fame, and fortune. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a nerve-racking experience to see him come my way. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m absolutely ordinary — well, except for bad things like all the near-death experiences and being so clumsy that I’m almost disabled. And look at you.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

All around, on haphazardly aligned shelves the boys had fastened to the walls themselves, amidst the model cars and their made-up superhero drawings, were souvenirs from all the adventures they’d experienced throughout the season. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were parts of the college experience I yearned to have, but that were impossible as a college athlete. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Plutarch could not go back beyond the ‘we’ that seemed to him secure enough; he could not point to any direct experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even in walking across the room you will very slightly alter your own experience of time and space. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was used to crowd noise from playing football, but I never experienced anything like this. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Currently, almost all of the music we experience is no longer live, but pre-recorded. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the shower I tried to rinse the experience away, scrubbing methodically, lifting my face to the slanting water. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Direct interaction with the sound is crucial, and notation cannot replace this experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The Scientific Revolution is precisely about new experiences and new sense-perceptions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lucy Burns had experienced force-feeding in England, so she knew what to expect. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I never experienced one college session that didn’t show me ways to improve upon my presentation and defense of Mr. Muhammad’s teachings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In outlook and experience they were nothing like the hard-core climbers with whom I usually went into the mountains. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And that I feel like I know it from experience. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Of course, he always experienced a certain anguish when hanging around with Lydia’s family at their home, by virtue of the contrast with his own family and home. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don’t have any experience with bringing it back to center? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

To experience her body’s balance within the world, the sensation of her skin from the inside, touching her face and receiving the touch from both sides—it’s unavoidable and incredibly intense. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s like I’m experiencing everything through a fishbowl. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he’d only been gone from the United States two months, Bobby had taken from his competitive experiences more than just bragging rights. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is perhaps the most orienting part of the geek experience for many lads like Jesse: They see the Net as a separate world, their world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many obvious reasons for these effects of history, such as that long experience of state societies and agriculture implies experienced administrators, experience with market economies, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ubiquitous experience shown in this New Yorker cartoon is a familiar example: Anyone who wants to lift the curse of knowledge must first appreciate what a devilish curse it is. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You look like you’re going to be sick. Are you experiencing any migraines or dizziness?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I hope that the next time I see you, you will be a new man with a vast array of new adventures and experiences behind you. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To him this chance to see South Africa less than a decade after the end of apartheid was the perfect preparation for a real understanding of the Rhodes experience and legacy. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to be ensuring that his experience with Sidley & Austin was bright and positive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I was only seventeen and hadn’t started to shave. We were troublemakers, tough kids, and we wanted experience and adventure.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there's a difference between knowing it and really experiencing it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were rolling on the floor, clutching your scar! Come now, Potter, I have experience in these matters!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

What would a history of experience—of this new sort of experience—be like? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You have not eaten? I will send you a sandwich. Herr Sayle is very keen for you to begin at once with the experience.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Moreover, her nature and experience wouldn’t allow her voice to go unheard, especially at tables dominated by men, where she often found herself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Many, like Dorothy, brought years of teaching experience to the position. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I hope my experience will be a microcosm for readers, who will also appreciate art in direct proportion to the amount of knowledge they bring to it. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

The experience did make me a little more confident of my ability to defend myself, though, and the natural night noises disturbed me less. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer had a grand vision but only limited fundraising experience. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And though his knowledge came from research rather than experience, he knew and he was accurate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though ordinary to most men, this was a luxury virtually unknown in my experience as a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my experience, it’s a lot to ask. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

What is important here is not, despite what Diderot says, the idea that experience is the best way to acquire knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Once in a tournament he came up against a forty-five-year- old man with a lot of experience. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But despite the officer’s rank and experience, Alfons refused to believe that the Nazis would systematically murder people, and he told him so. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped me on the shoulder as if he knew what I had experienced. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Using the arts yourself to enhance your lesson provides opportunities for students to experience music during the school day in a non-content related way. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Taking advantage of the Indians' recent good experience with English visitors, he invited people to come aboard. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The one thing that is clear from the survey data and ethnographic research is that African Americans in ghetto communities experience an intense “dual frustration” regarding crime and law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And, God knows, Will had plenty of experience with fly-by-night ideas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With time and experience I became a better hunter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

How do children of other cultures experience music? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Harry experienced a thrill of fear; what had happened? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Yet the more I talked about my experiences of the past eight weeks, the more upset she got. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

This was a novel experience: my comrades and fellow prisoners were now official visitors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As time separated me from the experience, I could feel no hate for the men who had driven me from the job. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have never experienced that. Yes, you have scraped your knees in falls from your bicycle. Yes, you crushed your finger in a door last year.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She attributed this to his war experiences, and for the most part she let it be, this silence of his. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The process of tracking down these people and listening to their stories has been one of the most interesting experiences of my life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She’d eat up the whole class talking about her experience in Bolivia like she was the only American to ever visit there. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes even I questioned this path I’d chosen, but I had to shift my thinking and convince myself that the struggles I was experiencing served a purpose. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

No, experience is not the ground for our game of judging. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is a struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and their own experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scarlett had experienced it—the knowledge that a teacher was just about to tell them that she’d been to Inverness on holiday, or that someone had dropped a spoon in just that way before. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But I got a great deal else from the experience. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, with some foreboding because of her previous experience in Providence, she chose the latter alternative. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

What could go wrong if one relied on the common experiences that we all share? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The subject matter was beyond obscure: a challenge even to the most experienced theoreticians in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

After she detailed her flight experience, he agreed and sent an invitation. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

We take it slow, and out of all the ways I’ve lived today, maintaining eye contact with Rufus is really hard; it’s easily become the most intense intimacy ever I’ve ever experienced. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nisus and Euryalus were their names, the first a valiant and experienced soldier, the other only a stripling, but equally brave and full of generous ardor for heroic deeds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was my Negro experience until I was well grown, perhaps too far grown to reform the inflexible habits of childhood. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We mostly write stories about our experiences and memories. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes such an experience bound one person to another; just as often the shame of one’s powerlessness made all witnesses into enemies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"I thought that as a man of experience . . ." "Well, I ain't had that experience. I went North of my own free will." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wished that the experience would never end. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked my dad why Grandpa was so crazy about guns, who had experienced traumatic things. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

From experience, they knew that for the next two hours Mr. Muhammad would wield his two-edged sword of truth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the weeks rolled on, he experienced firsthand the cardinal principle of American politics in the 1790s: whoever went face-to-face against Washington was destined to lose. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He’d waited tables at a roadside restaurant in Panamá, which turned out to be the only experience he needed to find work in the United States. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They'll ask me to tell them about some of the formative experiences in my life. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I was reading about Mr. Gandhi’s prison experience and how he quieted his fears and directed his thoughts so that his enemies were never really in charge of him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t much experience and did not know her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the fast took place in the fall of 2011, students reflected afterward about their experience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We wanted to highlight the importance of exposing children to the arts, showing that it’s not a luxury but a necessity to their overall educational experience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that was just an interesting experience all around.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve already had that experience with my sheep, and now it’s happening with people. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jail,” said Poppy soberly, settling himself on the couch with a large glass of water and tipping his head back, “is an experience I don’t ever want to have again.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It's funny how I'd blocked the experience out of my mind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Dill experienced the familiar rapturous rush of excitement and adrenaline as it neared and began laying on the whistle. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He was soon in trouble again, and, over the years, has experienced many vicissitudes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although his income was small, he had no taste for luxury—his experience in the monastery had solidified his natural asceticism while it developed his preference for solitude. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will broaden his experience in some ways, but it will also curtail his contact with clients. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The literature of Everest is rife with accounts of hallucinatory experiences attributable to hypoxia and fatigue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Francie, pleased at being taken into the confidence of these older, more experienced workers, obligingly slowed down. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a boiler happened to overheat, my dad claimed to be one of only a few workers with enough experience to swiftly and ably contain a disaster. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The birth of a work of art is an intensely private experience, so much so that many artists can work only when completely alone and refuse to show their unfinished pieces to anyone. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was just too young to conquer enough of the tournament veterans—each with years of experience in international competition. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Absent the extinctions, the encounter between Europe and the Americas might have been equally deadly for both sides—a world in which both hemispheres experienced catastrophic depopulation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Mmmm, terrible is pretty strong for a person with your novice level of sexual experience.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

But on another, by keeping new officers on their toes and keeping the blocks running according to the rules—by being a force for consistency—Wickersham may have been insuring himself against repeating the experience. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My experiences with New Guineans are paralleled by those of ethnobiologists studying traditional peoples elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I say a prayer of thanks to the god of synesthesia for both the experience and for making the experience fade away. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Two snakes full of poison” is how Patsy Mitchner, a former slave, summed up her experience before and after the war. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She realized he had no idea what she had just experienced. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The novelty of the sensation wore off, and the true power of the experience became apparent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For the soldiers, it was not an altogether unfamiliar experience, not unlike battle overseas—always having to be on the lookout for the enemy and ready to fight back to defend themselves. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In fact I worry about Jamie a good deal more now that I’ve experienced a little of what he’s up against. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As described in chapter 4, many people labeled criminals describe an existential angst associated with their pariah status, an angst that casts a shadow over every aspect of their identity and social experience. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

‘The poison will kill him eventually, but first come the paralysis and hours of excruciating pain. I want him to have the full experience! He can watch as I destroy you, Jason Grace!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We experienced the whole of Luxembourg, not just its trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I know from experience that confidence alone can get a person into a forbidden place. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For him, several experiments amount to experience—experiment is particular; experience general. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He starts by talking about his experience growing up Black in Mississippi and moves on to talk about systemic racism and how we don’t even realize how embedded it is in our world. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“This,” he wrote, “was my first experience with insane persons, and so terrible was it that for years afterwards, even now sometimes, I see their faces in my sleep.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I know I will never know a joy so vast as I experienced when I en­tered that tree’s dappled, shimmering shade and heard the dry, crisp sound of the wind rustling its leaves. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

From a very early age, I understood enough, just enough about my classroom experiences to keep what I knew repressed, hidden beneath layers of embarrassment. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because experiences like this were better than all the provisions they could have hoped to rustle up. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t anxious to have a similar experience. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Because I was a little older and more experienced this time, I had to audition to see what level I’d be in that fall. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these early days of the computer revolution, programmers with that kind of specialized experience were hard to find. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was precisely what so many of us hoped our own children would never need to experience, and yet probably would. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But Bacon then complicates matters by using the adjective experimentalis to cover all knowledge grounded in experience; and he has no verb for ‘to experiment’ other than experiri. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No, I told him quietly, I had never had that kind of experience. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

If the last few months have proven anything, it's that I don't need more theory, but rather more experience with reality. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Based on hearsay rather than personal experience? What if it’s purely fictional? Novel travelogues were quite a fashion in Modeg a couple hundred years ago.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A large cathedral will inspire awe; a large cellblock, in my experience, will mainly horrify. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then again, her parents were the ones who had bought it, and Virgil knew from firsthand experience that kids can’t pick their parents. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Although we don’t take much time in our busy day to think about it, one of the most significant uses for music is to create an aesthetic experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was not deja vu, for at the time he had experienced no sensation of ever having seen a naked man in a tree at Snowden’s funeral before. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He would later refer to the experience as “my baptism in nonviolence.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the coach was right about me, that I could be a star, I was all in for that experience. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She stands for everything new and interesting I’ve been experiencing recently. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on. You can’t even see them from here. Besides, look at this place. This is a real college experience.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Notwithstanding the universal admiration for Offenbach’s comic operettas, the opulence of the Parisian experience of opera and its position in society still meant it was a luxury. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Christmas in London was a charming experience for Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I experience the elation of his rescue. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The experience had been thrust upon her with no warning, as if she were a character in a comedic French play. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I checked my avatar’s stats and saw that I’d been awarded several hundred thousand experience points for clearing the gate, enough to raise my avatar from tenth level up to twentieth in one shot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Listen, boy, you’re going to speak to both white and colored people that night. What can you alone think of saying to them? You have no experience . . .” I burned. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those twenty seconds were the most experience we had, until Mercury began with Alan Shepard’s fifteen-minute flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whitney Young was subdivided into five “houses,” each one serving as a home base for its members and meant to add intimacy to the big-school experience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

An announcement on the overhead tells us we’re experiencing a brief delay and the system should be up and running again shortly. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Yet Szilard had learned from bitter experience that sometimes paranoia is the prudent approach. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I would hope that none of you would have to experience having hepatitis or AIDS. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more I spoke about my experiences to Esther, the more I began to cringe at the gruesome details, even though I didn’t let her know that. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She had not known, until she had both experienced and observed it, that human females swelled and grew and reproduced. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Father Olufemi is still making his selections. He wants to make sure there’s a good balance of novice and experienced warriors in case.. ” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then he made it his home away from home and began painstakingly to learn the town from the ground up, while searching for a family whose experience would carry a narrative. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lazlo stood rooted, experiencing the full meaning of useless as a wave of enemies hurtled toward them, moving with uncanny fluidity, flying at them as though launched. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Many people, especially poor people of color, fear and experience police harassment, retaliation, and abuse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was the experience of feeling death without dying that came from watching a chicken leap about blindly after its neck had been snapped by a quick twist of my father’s wrist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That said, Forward believes it is naive to think that all people can survive trauma, as great as those experienced by, say, Terryl and Linton—or, in a different way, Reggie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The arm muscles would begin to hurt, but it was the personal denuding he experienced under the many-eyed gaze of the class that was the prime cause of his discomfiture and embarrassment. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just wasn't ready to do an interview about my Holocaust experiences. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And watching him walk away, I felt that I had missed part of the experience because of my eyes, because my eyes were made in Baltimore, because my eyes were blindfolded by fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sitting across from him, I experienced a new feeling: concern for my teacher. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We talked about the guards at the prison and his experiences dealing with other prisoners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The vast, fluid space creates an atmosphere of quiet harmony while actively shaping our experience by determining how art shall be displayed. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used the city directory to locate a furnace company and requested an appointment with an experienced man. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Oh, I wish I could have said something to poor Bep, something that I know from my own experience would have helped. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As my mother and I nervously entered the small room I looked up and had the most terrifying experience of my seven-year-old life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy for us to be together, knowing we shared experiences no one else would believe. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They have a thick slice of experience with us, and that translates to a real sense of who we are. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Where there is no likeness of experience it’s very difficult. I understand you were not born in America.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The benefit of this is, according to Edwin Gordon’s approach, to have the child experience the whole piece first, and then learn what the song comprises in detail. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was, however, a totally new experience for her to be accused of a crime that she definitely had not committed. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I could use someone on a part-time basis. Do you have any experience?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Billy thought hard about the effect the quartet had had on him, and then found an association with an experience he had had long ago. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, Harry, had had too much experience of trying to wheedle information out of reluctant people not to recognize a master at work. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It is an extraordinary experience to find yourself face-to-face in the woods with a wild animal that is very much larger than you. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Without the discovery of as yet unavailable research tools, we will probably never know what the ancient foragers believed or what political dramas they experienced. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad actually had two kids way before he met my mom, so my brother and sister are both in their twenties. It’s like having four parents. I don’t recommend the experience, by the way.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I wonder about all the places and things and new experiences their money has been able to buy them. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I mean, Chris had more experience with girls than I did. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One Freedom Writer told about his experience of being in a gang and living on the street. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The company was started in the 1980s by Drew and Myra Goodman, two farmers who started with exactly no farming experience. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But that is only the latest in what has been an extraordinary string of experiences and careers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have more experience than half the seniors on the squad. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Either that, or I just experienced an insane hallucination. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But we knew from that experience not to go dragging the carcass into the Hob. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Why should the Rad Lab get a reactor now when there were more experienced labs all over the country? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ishmael’s heart began the fretful pounding he’d experienced of late in her presence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This does not mean that when we are outside our areas of passion and experience, our reactions are invariably wrong. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But as she looked at Robbie waiting calmly, she experienced a flash of outrage. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I can visit the World Travel Arena downtown, where Deckers and guests can experience the cultures and environments of different countries and cities. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. You are sixteen now, quite old enough to be my confidant, and my experience will be useful to you by-and-by, perhaps, in your own affairs of this sort.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I huddled down with the others I began to shake with cold, a kind of shaking I had not experienced, jumping, racking spasms like the convulsions of fever. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

After Strong described at dinner one evening his experiences supervising the carpenters, plumbers, and electricians building his house, Lawrence drove him up the hill to the Rad Lab site. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the second half, the Seventeens took advantage of their size and experience. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Still, the hardest code-breaking work remained hers, due to what she modestly termed her “greater experience.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Moss experienced a jolt of excitement as they picked up the pace and crossed over the baseball field. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In grade ten we had to do a week of work experience, to see what life was like in the adult world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He tells them about his boyhood in Gdynia and leads them gradually into his experiences in the camps. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

This book is about my experiences as a black child growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1940s and '50s under the umbrella of the rules and traditions of my oppressors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Based on this recent experience, I thought we could win relief for McMillian on appeal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The most valued pleasure of the people I knew was a car, the most cherished experience a bottle of whisky, the most sought-after prize somebody else’s wife. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the institutions in their lives, only the Catholic Church has seemed aware of the fact that my mother and father are thinkers—persons aware of the experience of their lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t exactly looking to repeat the experience. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"It was just one of many powerful experiences we shared, but it’s the one the world remembers." The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not having an experienced pilot would have meant death in more than one occasion on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Limerence is the experience of being in love with someone, commonly known as a crush, but not any old crush. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Back in our room, I wouldn’t allow myself to feel bad for trying out the “normal” college student experience for one night. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I’ll be able to bring this recall completely under control, to explore not only the sum of my past experiences, but also all of the untapped faculties of the mind. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the negative side, arts teachers are seen as separate “specialists,” which erroneously relieves the classroom teacher of any responsibility for incorporating the arts into the daily classroom experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This is a chronic disorder that affects only children of immigrants, who experience a constant gnawing guilt for the multitude of sacrifices their parents made to bring them to the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

With only a little experience in this sort of business, we are becoming fairly skillful at it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of people simultaneously experienced its symptoms: high fever, vomiting, severe pain, oozing blisters everywhere on the body. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I complained to the International Red Cross about this, I had yet to experience the problem myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t want to have the experience of someone beating up on me, though. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said this in what I thought of at the time as my older voice, a little businesslike and experienced. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talk more about her experience at St. Francis, how she was the senior class president and how she was on the debate team. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now this, as you can well imagine, was a rather nasty experience for two such gentle parents. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the second stage fired, the craft experienced a sudden jolt of immense force. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been a shorter trip to Athens over land, but after the crew’s experience with mountain spirits in Italy, they’d decided not to fly over Gaea’s territory any more than they had to. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He says trying to keep a toddler entertained was the best acting experience he’s ever had. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Bram had already experienced disaster in his life: his son had died of cystic fibrosis in adolescence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gone was the desperate, urgent, intense feeling of being at home; rare was the experience of feeling myself individualized by family intimates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “I loved it. High school was a great experience for me. Enjoy it. It goes by fast.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So he was seeking among what little he had to call experience for something to measure it by, and he couldn’t find anything. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the one dark spot in my experience at the foundation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Over years, I’d watched him inhale books, newspapers, and ideas, sparking to life anytime he spoke with someone who offered a shard of new experience or knowledge. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It is a matter of common experience that one can describe the position of a point in space by three numbers, or coordinates. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, the Industrial Revolution is not an easy transition, especially, in my experience, when you have to zip through it in just a couple of days. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the carriage travels the seven blocks to the theater, Major Rathbone, with his muttonchops and broad mustache, sits facing Lincoln, talking about his experiences in the war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They sailed in ships, walked on pontoon bridges, and stepped across frozen puddles without ever experiencing anything that seemed to oblige them to rethink their theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But he was certain that those experiences had been nothing compared to this. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He believed in a child-centered education that promoted understanding the world from the child’s level, taking into account individual development and concrete, tactile experiences such as working directly with plants, minerals for science, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They wanted men with specific skill sets and experience to help Hitler win the war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The boy told them about his life as a shepherd, and was about to tell them of his experiences at the crystal shop when the Englishman came into the tent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank had heard about people’s lives flashing before their eyes, but now he experienced it literally. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Watching him try to navigate the at once overwhelming and heartbreaking experience of the unmasked mob— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She could see that he had no experience with a human infant, though he was sure and facile with lambs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their buildings were huge, larger than anything in his experience at the ship-breaking yards. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Second, among Mediterranean zones, western Eurasia’s experiences the greatest climatic variation from season to season and year to year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is in everything and anything we might experience. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Will said out of his experience, “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. We can try it anyway. What do you all think?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frog’s experience was limited to practice yard and tourney ground, so he did not think it was his place to dispute the verdict of such a seasoned warrior. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His experience there seemed to be the source of his melancholy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he reported Bates, who had a doctorate and thirty-five years’ teaching experience, to the school administration for not being in compliance with the so-called School Improvement Plan. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had enough experience to know that in order to be a good organizer of anything which you expect to succeed—including yourself—you must almost mathematically analyze cold facts. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry planned his excursion carefully, because he had been caught out of bed and out-of-bounds by Filch the caretaker in the middle of the night once before, and had no desire to repeat the experience. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ernest had pressed Oppie to return to Berkeley after the war, but their wartime experiences had widened their personal differences into a gulf. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

From his experience at the Interzonal and the Candidates tournament in 1958–59, both held in Yugoslavia, he’d grasped enough of the language to at least autograph his name in Serbo-Croat. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As long as some creature experienced joy, then the condition for all other creatures included a fragment of joy. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is precisely because our criminal justice system provides a vehicle for the expression of conscious and unconscious antiblack sentiment that the prison label is experienced as a racial stigma. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought—that was his goal. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also supporting the belief that Bobby had experienced the ritual was the fact that, many years later, he gave an old chess clock and chess set to his Hungarian friend Pal Benko, a grandmaster. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sterner, but still with the authority of experience. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One smashes as I kick it off, leaving a green smear across my sneakers, which I know from experience ain’t coming out. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You are not made wise by experience, I hope?” and there was an anxious accent in Meg’s voice. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could have told the congregation that my experience was unique, an isolated event. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Just a wreck now. And you’re only alive because Nailer’s nicer than most of our people. Had himself some kind of religious experience out there. Got the fever eye, now, for sure.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later.—At the very outset of our meeting a great personal relief was experienced by both Van Helsing and myself. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The most liberating activity of all turned out to be downhill skiing, a sport with which I had little experience but that quickly became a passion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

First of all, he had to solicit more experienced naturalists to help him analyze his specimens. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never experienced anything like it: crushing pain between my temples—pain so severe that it was accompanied by shuddering waves of nausea and made it impossible for me to speak in coherent sentences. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was too important and he needed the weight of the Angolans’ expertise, their experience, to make sure all went well. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

These boys had had very little experience with women. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To have dealings with members of the lower castes was always, for Bernard, a most distressing experience. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be able to protect his friends from the horrible experience, but he knew he couldn’t. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed odd that Holmes would go to the trouble of moving to a second hotel, but Geyer knew from experience that making assumptions about the behavior of criminals was always a dangerous thing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When the technicians got to their new base, the bomb bay doors opened and they tumbled to the ground—some of them were so stunned by the experience that they couldn’t even get up. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“How could I know out of one experience? Go on.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Sweden, the people I met were equally interested and responsive, even though they hadn't experienced profound need or shared struggle with an abusive justice system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a beautifully written story, but, more important, it was a story about the black urban experience. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I worked in three hospitals in the duration—Alder Hey and the Royal East Sussex as well as St. Thomas’s—and I merged them in my description to concentrate all my experiences into one place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was as if what had happened in Kano was a massacre but what she had seen was an experience. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one yet had accused Holmes of foul play, but the intensity of this new wave of inquiry was greater, more obliquely accusatory, than anything he previously had experienced. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If Stuart had not had plenty of experience on the water, he would have got into serious trouble with it. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

However, guidelines are given below for infant and toddler music experiences. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

While I was apprehensive because I’d never experienced anything like it, I did want our interactions to...blossom beyond the bounds of friendship. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I tried husking corn and blistered my slow clumsy hands while experienced field hands sped through the work effortlessly, enjoying themselves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I should have brought along my boyfriend to make the experience feel more real or important, but I hadn't expected it to be a spectator sport. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I do not want to remind you of an unpleasant experience, but your sponge bag—remember.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

OK, now I get it—a person’s conscious experience of where the early taps fell depends on the location of the later taps. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Weigh in, readers, and share your experiences, especially if you are non-black. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They both seemed like no-nonsense, experienced investigators who were interested in doing credible and reliable work. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I can feel that it’s leaving me. Kira is experiencing the same thing.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then she got up and went into the kitchen, leaving Francis and me to one of the more torturous silences I have ever experienced. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s experience as an impresario of Big Science gave him an instinctive grasp of how to scale up a process from prototype to production. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Comparing notes of their experiences at college so far, they discover that they had both taken Psychology 110 the previous spring. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

William had a comfortable place in a settled society and suffered none of the hardships experienced by Kepler; he studied at the local grammar school, then went up to Cambridge in 1558. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Whales communicating across the oceans must have experienced increasingly greater difficulties. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a child, I waited for my mind to grow, for my experiences to accumulate and my choices to solidify, taking shape into the likeness of a person. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bill is a very nice fellow, amiable and full of knowledge, experienced on mountain trails, and with the inestimable bonus that he is a gifted orthopedic surgeon—just what you want in a dangerous wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

By now I was getting a sense of how Farmer put together experience and philosophy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Uncle Piet and Aunt Bushy would have experienced the same difficulties and frustrations in getting work permits as Mother had not Granny bribed black policemen who specialized in getting people illegal documents. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stassen leaped into his job with characteristic energy, declaring that he would assemble a supporting staff of “experienced men with brilliant analytical minds” to review American disarmament strategy from top to bottom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Arnold had brought sketches of the fortifications of West Point, which André, as an experienced intelligence officer, memorized and handed back to Arnold. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I continued also the wish to be with you, and experienced a strange, regretful consciousness of some barrier dividing us. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A longtime friend of Fischer’s, Kruse was a strong, very experienced climber. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re so experienced, and you know about the circus—about the animals—and...you could help me to—to get through it without crying and disgracing my father.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ophie had experienced a taste of freedom, and now she was loath to give it up. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

While I wasn’t surprised, the experience was sobering, reminding me again of how different I was from the other students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was good, clean fun—excellent writing, a fine learning experience. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

"Are you experiencing a difficulty in using or maintaining your Sears product, sir?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think being disgraced in school is a great deal tryinger than anything bad boys can do,” said Amy, shaking her head, as if her experience of life had been a deep one. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were in a race and knew it, because they knew from bitter experience that Colonel Cathcart might raise the number of missions again at any time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Poppy said, “Today was quite an experience. Nineteen people asked me if they could borrow money.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A cold spell had hit New Orleans, so that lying under the lamp that day was a comfortable experience. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men—like Papa—who were forced to work as loggers there had no prior experience, so Hanako was always worried that her father would get killed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Detroit experience has been repeated in many other communities as pressure has mounted to combat the Japanese beetle with chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He knew from experience that this was how to grip the jar so it didn’t cover his nose. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

During the last ice age it experienced what geologists call a periglacial climate—a zone at the edge of an ice sheet characterized by frequent freeze-thaw cycles that fractured the rock. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

From past experience, she'd learned that having a lemonade stand alone wasn't considered cool—it was considered pathetic. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Of course, she had experienced inequalities; she knew that when she was a teacher, she was paid less than men doing the same job. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And when experienced cell phone users were asked how long it would take novices to learn to use the phone, they guessed thirteen minutes; in fact, it took thirty-two. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Going upstairs,” he said, and both experienced a strange relief now that they had a term for his nocturnal visits. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For the first time in human experience, people now had watertight containers readily available in any desired shape. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

While the experience of a work can be immediately electrifying, we sometimes do not realize its impact until it has had time to filter through the recesses of our imaginations. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writing 3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

After writing two books based on her experiences in the Hitler Youth, Melita Maschmann changed her name and moved to India. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This site would be helpful to those learning new instruments, as well as experienced musicians who are just looking for some new music to play. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Notably, however, even after such positive experiences, most family members remain committed to maintaining tight control over who knows and who does not know about the status of their loved one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Seeking all ethnic types; must have experience keeping close barbershop harmonies. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For the first time, she drew power from her personal experiences; she’d hidden and run from her home life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But there will be so many new sights and experiences and it will be good to have a record. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph had no experience, it was true, but everyone started with no experience. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had plenty of courtroom experience, and he knew it was time to seek help. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’d wake up at night, bathed in cold sweat, reliving over and over again my experiences in the camps,” said Karl. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra experienced the sense of vertigo that had overwhelmed her when they were changing Grandma back from being a hen. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sent to the office; there was no detention; nobody even yelled at me, which was a first in my educational experience. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

They are not in the position of the Africans, who are attempting to reclaim their land and break the colonial yoke and recover from the colonial experience. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I feel better now, having said this, although only those who have experienced it will understand it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s because I provided him with the opportunity to spend a full day in the field with one when he was about your age. I hope he provides your brothers with the same experience.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He’s one of the most intuitive captains out of anyone—he would have selected someone he could count on, experienced players who are ranked high. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the men had polar experience, either Arctic or Antarctic. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Hideo has indeed hired a few hackers in the past—to help him work out bugs inside Warcross—but they were way more experienced, and probably with no criminal records. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I think it was my first experience with it, but I was raised by hippies.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The way he said it, he seemed to know from experience. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The experience was heartbreaking, and I wanted to cry. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even more amazing, this experience happened to him repeatedly throughout the day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There is not one decisive break saying that the people below this all have this common experience,” Kingston said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jaime had told him of it often enough. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For Contarini, experience had taken on a new kind of authority. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Baty had tried to force the fusion experience into existence for itself—and then, when that fell through, it had engineered the killing of a variety of human beings...followed by the flight to Earth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And maybe he’s experiencing it too, what with the singing and all. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

To them, the answer to why she thought she wasn't being tailed was simple: She lacked the experience to pick up on her KGB surveillance team. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Generations of settlers, mostly farmers, gained experience as “Indian fighters,” although they were not necessarily in the regular military. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

My skin still rippled from the experience of fear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The experience carries social meaning—this is what it means to be black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It has changed, certainly, and it is now experienced in all sorts of ways that would have surprised, for instance, Edvard Grieg, the Norwegian composer who died a few months after that historic transmission. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The fourth and fifth games almost proved to him that he was experiencing some decline, or an accumulation of rust: He lost both. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “I think I’ve been assuming things about your life that I shouldn’t assume. And I didn’t ask you to tell me. I don’t have very broad experience, I guess.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A-plus performances, really, but if they were going to make fun of my near-death experience, they could have at least gotten the details right. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Though in a million superficial ways it would be identical to the day before—the same breeze would blow and the same tree limbs would fall—my experience of it would be new. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But he was still recovering from the trauma of the war as well as some serious traumas that preceded his military experience. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Root also married a daughter of the stockyards, but his experience was darker. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dewey had imagined that with the deaths of Smith and Hickock, he would experience a sense of climax, release, of a design justly completed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Pasiphaë was an immortal sorceress with thousands of years of experience in weaving spells. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Also, sound effects are added to enhance the action or bring a fuller meaning or experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But Marina wanted her to take charge, because Yevdokia would be the oldest member of her regiment as well as the most experienced. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In the course of one year from the time I left Mr. Gardner’s, I was able to command the highest wages given to the most experienced calkers. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

From experience, I knew that seat was the best vantage point in the room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“He had, after all, no experience in directing a large group of people,” said the German-born physicist Hans Bethe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Free hunting was a tactic the Soviet Air Force exploited in 1943 and assigned to experienced fighter pilots of exceptional talent. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It will surprise you beyond anything you will ever experience. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Seeing the faces of my people, I experienced a rush of sudden joy. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The giants themselves must have found it an interesting experience. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At forty-eight she has come to experience the solitude that her husband and son and daughter already know, and which they claim not to mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like the writers of Proverbs the authors seem old; they are men of experience who have meditated on human affairs. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes you look back over your past life experiences and you realize that if you would have done something different, you would have been someplace else,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her instincts were tugging on her in a way she had never experienced before. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Monroe County Sheriff Tom Tate did not have much law enforcement experience. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘The simple sailors of today,’ wrote Jacques Cartier in 1545, ‘have learned the opposite of the opinion of the philosophers by true experience.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In Europe, the Pilgrims had refused to hire the experienced John Smith as a guide, on the theory that they could use the maps in his book. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Whenever we experience a basic emotion, that emotion is automatically expressed by the muscles of the face. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It means that one has traveled a great distance, that one has had wide experience and gained some wisdom from it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus what Koyré took to be the key concept that made possible the new science, the concept of inertia, was, he held, constructed by Galileo thinking about everyday experience, by a mere thought experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Rindlsbacher, through years of experience, knew that sometimes there were accidents, but more often, there were wrecks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Come on, man. It’s Sunday. Ain’t nothing on but reruns of what we just experienced,” I joked. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Herbert Richardson was a Vietnam War veteran whose nightmarish experiences in brutal conditions left him traumatized and scarred. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Adams himself, while vastly experienced as a statesman and diplomat, had no experience whatsoever as an executive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Susan Calvin, except for two hours of resentful lassitude, experienced nothing approaching sleep. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The Daniels had never experienced the Academy cafeteria, so they thought the food court was fine dining. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

She was, after all, perched on his brow all this while—until tonight, and this new experience of his back—and there was a strange intimacy in that. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The experience is so realistic, few people can tell the difference, and many consider Mind’s Eye better than real life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I have still the advantage of you by sixteen years’ experience, and by not being a pretty young woman and a spoiled child. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It’s like seeing an old friend you’ve drifted from and remembering all the shared experiences you used to have. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I have more experience than most; I’ve experienced something almost no one my age ever has. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Logic and years of experience screamed at him to be with them, even though six guards trailed them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the vision I had experienced after Mr. Katz had chloroformed me, the object I had seen swaying atop the flooded sunflower field had been a canvas tent. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had the experience, built over a lifetime, but no degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was another experience that reinforced that idea. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But after two years of total immersion in art history, I found my experience of looking at paintings and sculpture totally transformed. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had experienced the beginning of contempt, but now the childhood fear and respect and animosity came back to him, so that he seemed a little boy testing his father’s immediate mood to escape trouble. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last few days have already been the worst I’ve ever experienced. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

This was my first experience with a Fake Shift. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not that it was normally a joyful experience. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She pointed her finger around the class and asked, “Where is she? Oh, there you are. Why don’t you stand up and tell my college students a little more about your experience with homelessness?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The new language of science was above all a language which gave the new scientists tools for handling evidence, or, as it was called at the time, experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As the first light of morning trickled into the tower room, Violet reflected on all the awful things she and her siblings had experienced recently. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “that’s not my right. Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only reason she had lasted this long, as Tendai knew from evil experience, was because the She Elephant was drunk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was a nerve- racking assignment, as I’d had no experience with any of the patients. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to experience just being a regular girl for once, with an actual sweet, caring boyfriend. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was a whispering noise that began then to run through the hall, a low susurrus that caused Shadow, in his dream, to experience a chilling and inexplicable fear. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Second, a long cultural revolution had to take place, in which book learning came to seem of lesser importance than direct experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You have no experience in starvation,” he said. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The only way is by horse and carriage,” said Addison, “which takes several days ... and causes considerable chafing, in my experience. I’m afraid you don’t have that much time to spare.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“From experience I would say the papers were full of what people were saying about Branwell’s case. Sort of like evidence. Called depositions.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After this experience he might be translated mystically to another plane of existence, to another dimension, just as the redwoods seem to be out of time and out of our ordinary thinking. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moves on to the technology of brain scans, what he and his team have learned just from my experience and the implications for future patients facing similar problems. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

From this profoundly instructive trauma, I learned to assume the permanent possibility that, however solid the middle-class reinforcements, race could trump class in my life experience. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

S/he experiences hallucinations, vomiting, chronic migraines, memory loss, and/or fainting spells. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was so much older than me, and had so much more experience. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Ensuring that there will be other 203’s and extended families like the Freedom Writers so that our experience will not be the exception but the norm. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The mentors would share their wisdom that comes with age and experience and we would share our knowledge about diversity to help make them better teachers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So when the members started asking about our sexual experiences, I had nothing shameful to say. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

These few, even after today, still wouldn’t have had the experience of landing in an airplane, just taking off and jumping out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

All of this felt particularly sweet in these last days, as the nostalgia that kicks in at the end of any meaningful experience had started to affect us. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I know the bull that charges and the serpent that stings” could only mean that she distrusted Americans, and that this mistrust had come from experience. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She’d only been able to bury Hercules in groceries when she had concentrated on all her positive experiences with Jason. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be bom a society of which all humanity will be proud. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Citing his years of experience at sea, he presented himself at the offices of the National Antarctic Expedition in London. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Though they are far more experienced, army surgeon Dr. Charles Sabin Taft and Dr. Albert King defer to their younger colleague because Dr. Leale was first on the scene. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And even when Candice made a mistake, her grandmother would tell her it was just a learning experience, and to keep trying. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Men have judged that a king can make rain; we say this contradicts all experience… The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Worsley must go along: no one else was capable of the navigating that this journey would require, and his experience with small boats was unmatched. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

To their knowledge, the Beiderman had never experienced the joy of breakfast in bed, and they were certain that Oliver’s excellent idea would win him over. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had compartmentalized my bad experience into two defined reactions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Peeta seems to be struck with the same reluctance I’m experiencing. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to be a regular guy. I want to grow up. Have, you know, a regular high school experience.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always got up and tried again, but the champion of Sandiki was much too fast for him, and too clever, and much, much too experienced. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dastardly stuff—you do well on a test; you make a girl laugh; you have a particularly lower-body-simmering experience after talking online and rushing to the bathroom; you think it’s all over. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Friday afternoon, I was sitting with Grover at the lake, resting from a near-death experience on the climbing wall. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For all that, I’d been holding it off for ages, repeating to myself Miss Emily’s advice—“If you can’t find someone with whom you truly wish to share this experience, then don’t!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is it like to experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which one has no control? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wish to know if I feel you are ready to duel to the death a man ruthless enough to kill your father, rich enough to buy protection, older and more experienced, an acknowledged master.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You are helping to educate your fellow students who’ve never experienced being anything other than part of the majority. I think you all are just as amazing.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

For me, the ceremony itself would become another one of those strange, slowed-down experiences where the scope was so enormous I couldn’t fully process what was going on. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My life in Johannesburg, my exposure to men like Gaur Radebe, my experiences at the law firm, had radically altered my beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already Salva could tell that because of his army experience and because he had a gun, Uncle was seen by the group as a kind of leader. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of the wagon, supported by sacks of squash and hills of pumpkins, Shadrack began a struggle that was to last for twelve days, a struggle to order and focus experience. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have anything approximating his experience, but she told him about groping around in the back seats of enormous convertibles with crew-cut boys in tuxedos who sucked on her big breasts like newborn babies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

None reported feelings of rage in connection with the murders, nor did they experience anger in any strong or pronounced way, although each of them was capable of enormous and brutal aggression. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan had never experienced such pain—he never knew such pain could even exist. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I had to feel and think out each tiny item of racial experience in the light of the whole race problem, and to each item I brought the whole of my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That morning of October 5, absorbing the impact of the initial headlines, Christine experienced a mix of emotions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Based on past experience, Paul knew all too well that this would be difficult. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And here is a thing that most of us fail to appreciate: we are still in an ice age, only now we experience it for just part of the year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment we decided to share some of our personal experiences with the kids. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Amina, you can only make a difference if you get involved, right? And I want to run in high school, so I need experience.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Surely he must be experiencing a remorse sufficiently profound to summon a desire for God’s mercy and forgiveness? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if we then used that as a cornerstone for something bigger, a whole children’s health initiative that might help parents avoid some of the pitfalls I’d experienced? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Earth gravitationally attracts us with a certain force, which if we are falling we experience as an acceleration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that there were older boys in the junior varsity boat with a lot of experience and talent. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“They rely on our experiences and ingrained biases.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing in my experience had prepared me for it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, they came with more experience than the white women applicants, with many years of teaching experience on top of math or science degrees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Instead she said, “Today I want you to write about the strongest smell you ever experienced.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My experience with Father Martin was not at all like that. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Massasoit had considerable experience with Europeans—his father had sent Martin Pring on his way seventeen years before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One was from a halfway house intake coordinator who testified that, in his experience treating crack addicts, whites and blacks dealt and used the drugs in similar proportions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As we saw in Chapter 3, the very concept of discovery depended on the conviction that there could be new experiences, unlike any that had gone before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Exactly three hundred years later, in 1919, the United States experienced more labor strikes in one year than in any other year in its history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

These two had passed through an experience that had marked them deeply; they didn’t want to talk about it yet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

People had to have more than twenty experiences of joy in their whole life. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“This year, the Theme is Experience! We will each pick one club, and the rest of us will join. We’ll be in three activities together, and more importantly, experience them together! We’ll have new adventures!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Already, we were beginning to experience the pressures of a national campaign. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“She just makes me want to fight for justice, so that no little girl or little boy, or anyone that age—or anyone, for that matter—would have to experience this.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

How indeed could it be otherwise, so long as art is still being created all around us, opening our eyes almost daily to new experiences and thus forcing us to readjust our understanding? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The peace we experienced among the factions, before Jeanine’s first attack, can be restored, I’m sure of it. And I want to try to restore it. I think this is something you want too.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Although we never explicitly talked about it, I imagine this must have been a difficult experience for him, especially with his quiet nature. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Certainly I shall. If a man like you, who knows the animals from experience, can’t hazard a good guess at any rate, who is even to try?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The first anatomist regularly to disagree with Galen on the basis of direct experience was Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, whose Anatomy was published in 1535, only a few years before Vesalius’s Fabric. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Seemed like I was about to experience the joys of fishing, whether I really wanted to or not. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It was sort of like a play—which, as you know, I have some experience at. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Their religious experience may have been turbulent and filled with controversies, reforms and revolutions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always approached each new person and each new experience the exact same way. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since they knew nothing about the magical nature of the preserve, there was no way they could possibly relate to what she had experienced. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I imagine the experience of unease mixed with exhilaration often described in connection with this moment is very similar to what I felt in the Ford as the surroundings grew strange around me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Several surgeons with gunshot wound experience declared that damage to the vertebrae and ribs alone would not cause death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Statistically speaking, how often has that strategy paid off, in your vast experience?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So far, none of the changes I’ve been experiencing lately have been temporary. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Was it possible to feel nostalgic for something you never experienced? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I could have written a science paper on the experience. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They didn't think that his ability, experience, and ethics qualified him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Charles was devastated; he had had very little experience with death. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now imagine that world has people like us in it, but no bees. They’d have the experience of sweetness and of light, but how would they symbolize them?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was this work that soon convinced Vesalius that Galen had had little or no experience of human dissection and encouraged him to prepare his own book on human anatomy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, in the gyptians the Oakley Street boats had well-informed and greatly experienced guides to all the waterways. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Frank had obviously shared some crazy experiences when they had blacked out together, and they’d made some sort of deal. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Only a handful of hospitals in the States had the right equipment and experience to deal with cancer. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve traveled across the country doing interviews about my experience, and the surprising thing—compared to other book publicity I’ve done—is that I don’t get tired of it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any experienced hustler will tell you that getting greedy is the quickest road to prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who was this young student with no experience, who’d beat out all the other entrants? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the one hand there was truth, on the other opinion; on the one hand there was knowledge, on the other experience; on the one hand there was proof, on the other persuasion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The parallels with the Indian experience are striking. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It may be analogous, in some respects, to the panic once experienced by poor and working-class whites faced with desegregation—the fear of a sudden demotion in the nation’s racial hierarchy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ash looked at Jewel dubiously — she might be an experienced horse, but to Ash’s eye, Jewel was grander than any horse she had ever ridden. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been my experience for nearly a year that uttering the words “female trouble” could get me into places I wanted to go and out of places I didn’t. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are my brothers and me, living on opposite sides of a triangle, experiencing the same things but never together. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But whatever their experience, whether North Sea trawler-hand or Cambridge University scientist, they knew they were in for the adventure of a lifetime. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I want this to be the unforgettable experience Arthur has been dreaming of for who knows how long. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He also experienced a “psychic giddiness” that made it difficult for him to walk a straight line. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They had eight experienced Runners to do that. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She looks at me, and I think I know her thoughts, because I have experienced them before. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was like she was so hungry for a normal eighth grader’s experiences that she needed to drink in mine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say that intense communal experiences can create lasting friendships. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s based on a simple proposition: Our day-to-day reality is based on what we see and hear with what we experience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ernest called MIT’s bluff, informing Evans that he was welcome to hire experienced cyclotroneers from Berkeley to do the job, but warning that the good ones would demand at least an assistant professorship to move. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

So there were only three experienced warriors who could fight a lion, plus the one elder who had come down with me. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper had seen some horrible things, but it was nothing compared to what Annabeth had experienced. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It took years in the crucible of human experience to value the gentle people one meets in the eye of the storm. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working with them, she later said, was “one of the pleasantest experiences of my career.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I have no journalistic experience or training, but I attacked this project with a fervor and excitement that I didn’t know I had. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It buzzed a little bit, and I had a brief vision of it experiencing a non-passive failure and exploding into a billowing cloud of smoke and motor particles, but then it got up to speed. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, Henry,” Alex yells, seizing Henry by one lapel as the music pounds on, “you have to dance. You have to dance. You need to understand this formative American coming-of-age experience.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The new lab had inherited this tenet from its parent, Ernest Lawrence, who had experienced not a few such mishaps during his career. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And so he tells the reader not about the dreams, which were too private an experience, but about the day he spent in the stove-heated room, when his life as a philosopher began. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the sublunary zone the four elements—earth, water, air and fire—which form the basis of all our daily experience of matter are to be found. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What bad experience had she had with heroes? The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He guessed what frustrations guards must be experiencing to excuse the rude things they said to him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Well, maybe he hasn't had much experience in helping to rob drugstores. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hard experience had taught me to leave extra time to find the room. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

All the experience I had piled up in the earlier weeks seemed to make it harder rather than easier to be out on the trail on my own. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Major Henry Rathbone, seated in the box just feet away from the president, was an experienced army officer, familiar with the sounds of gunshots. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This has been the experience of a lifetime getting to see you compete in the Olympics. I couldn’t be prouder, and you should be proud of yourself.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The Negro often dreams of things separated from him only by a door, knowing that he is forever cut off from experiencing them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss experienced a flash of a memory then: Esperanza, days earlier, making the college fair about herself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She experienced an enormous sense of relief and joy, now that Matt had returned and was safe. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was experiencing nostalgia for the life I’d had before, which I would lose at any second, when the world turned and began to devour itself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It sounds like you know from experience,” I said, again stealing Haskel’s bowler cap from atop his bedpost. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

These songs are part of a potentially rich musical experience for the child—exposing them to material with inherent sociocultural meaning that can contribute to excellent lessons and, most importantly, enhance integration activities. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Still—it was better than the dull void he’d experienced earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Understandably heady from the experience of the Friday morning pep rally, Don Billingsley’s focus was on the game ahead, not on school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true that she hadn’t made it easy; she knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But I have no desire to experience it in real life. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

No matter how horrendous the experience had been, I could usually get Jeffrey to laugh by acting like a sports commentator. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What you lack is nothing to do with experience.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I imagined, as a pastor, he’d had experience giving bad news to people, but it must have been different when it was your own wife and son. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She compensated for this handicap by developing a memory on which was indelibly stamped everything she had ever heard or seen or experienced. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their bodies would also become less tolerant of heat and cold, for Libra would not experience the extremes of temperature that we find in Alaskan winters or Arizona summers. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just kept you going so you could experience more excruciating pain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Every instinct and all his experience told him this was his prey. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

What better proof could there be, after all, of his oft-repeated claim that he relied on experience not authority? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But whether the future of nuclear technology lay in war or peace, dispersing an effective team of experienced researchers and leaving them without financial support would be a foolhardy course for the government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Patrick Moore told viewers that they could experience the phenomenon by jumping in the air at the exact moment the alignment occurred. If they did, they would feel weightless, like they were floating.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And yet the heat that springs from the constant danger, from a lifestyle of near-death experience, is thrilling. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a long time, I allowed myself to enjoy and experience life without a timetable and rigid commitments. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

By fifteen, he was having seizures and experiencing psychotic episodes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, it seemed to me, not only that the world was full of English majors, but of people with a lot more experience than I had. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One near-death experience for the day is enough for me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything. Besides, doomed love is a part of life.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mandela and Tambo was falling apart as we could not be there, and both Oliver and I were experiencing grave financial difficulties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am telling you that escape or checking out is a common response to emotional trauma and anxiety, like the kind Sparrow experiences in social situations, like school.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The conquests of Alexander in the late fourth century gave the Greeks firsthand experience of Persia, India, and the Asian kingdoms lying between. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Because of what she must experience. Part of that includes a great betrayal...” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships,” I said. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana experienced little emotion when he saw the field for the first time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that’s kind of how it felt. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

For one nasty moment, Harry thought that Hagrid was going to lead them into the forest; Harry had had enough unpleasant experiences in there to last him a lifetime. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Much of this chapter has been concerned with the language of science, as much of the book will be, but the book’s argument is also and equally about what Leonardo called ‘the test of experience’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some of the women were approaching their golden years, the passage of time and experience etched in their faces and bearing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He didn’t really have the experiences everyone else has, always isolated by fame or harangued by security. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

While he tended to defer to Adams on the basis of age and political experience, Jefferson dominated his relationship with Madison for the same reasons. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

To cope, they took on an experienced radio and theatre actor, Paul Stewart, as an associate producer. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My chest fills with a burst of feeling, unlike anything I've ever experienced before. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Walter and I traveled to legal conferences and spoke about his experience and about the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But look at how the officer’s experience and skill allowed him to stretch out that fraction of time, to slow the situation down, to keep gathering information until the last possible moment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In other words, there are parts of the whole dining-out experience that we can decompose and outsource. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I do eat, it’s one of two experiences: a Battle or a Slaughter. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

This was a totally new experience for me; I felt kind of weird getting extra attention because people hadn’t seen a Muslim woman fence before. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Blanca was slow to react, and it was a while before she realized what she saw, because she had no experience in such matters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something in Jacobi’s eyes that was sympathetic in a way I’d never experienced before. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And even though I considered myself to be pretty smart, I didn’t have any work experience, at least not any that was on the books. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s crazy, but instead of that whole experience pushing me to train even harder, I began slacking off in practice. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For example, there is some experience of hunting wild animals in every human culture. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My stomach twists at the thought of one more new experience. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In addition, White brought on an experienced deep-cover operative who looked more like an insurance salesman—perhaps because it was his former profession. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the 1880s Chicago was experiencing explosive growth that propelled land values to levels no one could have imagined, especially within the downtown “Loop,” named for the turn-around loops of streetcar lines. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I once had an interesting experience on an easterly course. Do you want me to tell you about it?” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the privacy of the bathroom, alone and unseen, the weight of the experience pressed down upon me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Eads discovered that workers began experiencing the bends at sixty feet below ground, roughly half the depth to which a Chicago caisson would have to descend. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She has gone from welfare statistic in the early 1990s to credit card-carrying member of the middle class, a woman for whom there are now few statistics, so rare has her experience been. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I bit into my quesadilla, wondering if this would be too much work for a group with zero experience. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It goes on: “The individual feels an increasing sense of tension or arousal before committing the act and then experiences pleasure, gratification, or relief at the time of committing the act.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

These can likewise be experienced in time, space, and energy. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The way I experienced the physical world was always changing. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He will give Theo the benefit of his experience and his life wisdom. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A more experienced and much older man took advantage of me when I was at my very lowest. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He sat forward suddenly, opened his eyes, and said, “You may ask questions. I have so little experience in describing this process. It is forbidden to talk of it.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

After that experience Stuart contented himself with the tiny coins which his father made for him out of tin foil. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’d never fainted in my life, but I thought it sounded like an interesting experience. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Kirk, Wendell, and I had now experienced two bombings— two close calls in our lives. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In both the Fertile Crescent and China, iron objects became common only after about 2,000 years of experience of bronze metallurgy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Night Witches” in the Sky paints a vivid and faithful portrait of the 46th Guards’ experiences at the height of the war—from flaming death in the air to bunches of wildflowers in the cockpit. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Garzoni’s and della Porta’s facts are based not on a collective knowledge, on a shared understanding, but on direct, personal experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The flat was filled with neighbor women who stood around praying and reminiscing about their own child-bed experiences. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I myself tried to be mindful of that wall, learning from other First Ladies’ experience, taking care not to directly or overtly insert myself into West Wing business. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My experience of the piano came entirely from Robbie’s squat little music room with its scraggly potted plant and view of our modest backyard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“A medal-league table was set up every day in most newspapers, which showed the points every team had reached....For us youngsters, it was a nail-biting experience to the very last day. We had won!” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their mountaineering experience varied from none at all to very slight—certainly none of them had the kind of experience which would make an ascent of Everest a reasonable goal. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I ran I thought about Manuelito and the experiences I shared with him and others in Bonetti Ranch; I thought about racial segregation in the South and about Paul’s remark about college. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Of course, Penelope had no personal experience of what a grandfatherly interest might be like, since she had no grandparents of her own, at least that she knew of. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But the fresh experience of yet another fire seemed to have left most people feeling grateful and humbled. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It is a matter of common experience that disorder will tend to increase if things are left to themselves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Aly and I spread thick cold cream on our faces, we talked about what the Olympic experience might be like this time around. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was so wrapped up in the experience that it took me a few seconds to recognize the female pedestrian we’d just passed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Working far away from Bletchley, with minimal Enigma experience, Elizebeth and her small team had managed to achieve the same goal. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But monumental changes in the economy and in attitudes toward immigrants have made it far less likely that Peralta and his children will experience the same upward mobility as Zannikos and his family. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had one experience like this with the Orsini soldiers, when he attacked Bologna after the seizure of Faenza and saw them go reluctantly into that battle. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It becomes a social experience, an object of conversation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scheme failed because there were no pearls and anyway Norwood’s bell didn’t work, but Norwood was not one to waste an experience. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We all had been through our private hells, and we were still processing what we had experienced. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And five yards away kneels this woman with varnished fingernails and hairless calves—a woman so entirely removed from Werner’s previous experience that it is as if she is from a different planet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘Our Knowledge’, in Locke’s phrase, which must conform to observation, experience and testimony, is knowledge as acquaintance, but Locke still hankers over justified true belief. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As one decade passed into another, I put my World War II experiences even further behind me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The pendulum clock provided an objective measure of a subjective experience—the passage of time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Crying wasn’t anything I had ever experienced on any last day of school, but crying was what I felt like doing, and I know I wasn’t the only one. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I also knew that I never wanted to experience that awful soap again. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither girl spoke, and when they linked arms it seemed they were resuming, after a lifetime of experience, their walk across Westminster Bridge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mayor Schmoke continued to tell me about his experiences as I listened intently. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He had a knowledge of crops and seasons, born of experience; but where crops thrived under Nathan’s hand, under Selvam’s they wilted. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hands-on cyclotron operators, a species of which Bethe was not a member, understood that there were so many imponderables about how the machine worked that empirical experience still trumped even the most carefully polished theory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

That was when I experienced a moment of stunning understanding. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“People who want you dead. Or people who have experienced it themselves. Firsthand. Or secondhand, like me.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

How could this staircase experience be anything but a huge, strange coincidence? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the late 1930s, she was at the top of her game, with exactly the experience needed for the job. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The boy had already had experience on the road with Gypsies; they also traveled, but they had no flocks of sheep. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In January 1997, when I was nine years old, our family experienced a sudden and tragic loss. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was quite easy for her to attribute her condition to certain dreams she had experienced while her husband was away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She experienced pleasurable erotosexual sensations by positioning herself by the water jets of a neighbor’s swimming pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The way I had imagined the search effort was accurate, but each article had a small detail that grounded the incident, yet made it seem impossible that I had experienced the same accident. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry that your experience with the Ruh has left something to be desired,” I said carefully. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rather than strengthening her faith, Elizabeth’s traumatic experience with Reverend Finney made her skeptical of organized religion, a doubt that continued for the rest of her life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The way she says this makes him wonder if she speaks from experience, if she’s Russell’s lover, or ex-lover, if that is what she is implying. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had some pretty bad experiences with defense on capture the flag. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We had to move about, and still around sunset I was taken by fits of shuddering like those I had experienced in the prison-truck crossing Orgoreyn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We experience each other’s bodies in a different way. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, it wasn’t until she’d reviewed the video for her report that she was certain the whole thing wasn’t a hallucination brought on by a near-death experience. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Stewart reached for the reins, but Booth, an experienced rider, spurred and pulled the horse in a tight circle away from Stewart. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shake it—and quite sure I experience close to a lethal dose of electricity. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a grinding experience and I reacted as indicated above. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But as the intense six-month program began, she experienced problems in the pressure chamber and with the centrifuge. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

But table 24 is the meteorological event of the century: ten British tourists who seem to have made the decision to absorb the American experience entirely by mouth. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Had you ever experience of such a character, sir? Did you ever love such an one?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Based on the experience with Darnell, this would be extremely challenging. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was still a part of it all, playing ball, eating, reading, experiencing the death of a family member, and the sadness. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be chasing this for the rest of my life,” Bobby says of his experience in Good Boys. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He recognized that he was feeling something he had never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years before Colonel Aureliano Buendía had spoken to him about the fascination of war and had tried to show it to him with countless examples drawn from his own experience. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Percy struggled to keep his head above water, which was obviously a new experience for him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Thus urged, I began the narrative of my experience for the last year. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Students came to the pulpit to tell of their experiences as demonstrators, while speakers from black churches around Dallas County urged adults in the audience to follow the students’ example and get involved. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, I know that’s pathetic in just about its purest form, but there’s no way I can deal with this kind of thing so early I need experience with this. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The experience was very strong, nearly a hallucination. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A final burst of energy flew through Inigo’s veins and he made every attempt, tried every trick, used every hour of every day of his years of experience. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You must have had the experience where somebody comments on your expression and you didn’t know you were making it,” Ekman says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The armored personnel carrier drivers were there to take them farther into the jungle and warned them about the intense action they’d been experiencing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Leo stood at the helm, conferring with Festus through the intercom; he knew from experience to give Jason and Piper some space. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was asked about my high school experience, and which of my grade school teachers had prepared me for my success. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Throughout the day Root had experienced strange dreams, including one that had come to him many times in the past of flying through the air. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They emptied the boxes with the expertness of four straight years’ experience. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, instinctive judgments rely on experience, and we don’t experience everything that happens on a basketball court or a baseball diamond. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The woman then aborted spontaneously, and the nun who assisted at this grotesque delivery came away from the experience with blood on her hands. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He just wants to give us some hands-on experience,” said Hermione, immobilizing two pixies at once with a clever Freezing Charm and stuffing them back into their cage. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson had swapped a senior, Wink Winslow, for George Morry, as coxswain, to capitalize on Winslow’s greater experience with river rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He has given us eyes to see the beauty of the world, hands to touch it, a nose to experience all its fragrance, and a heart to appreciate it all. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had fourteen years of teaching experience with lots of awards to her credit. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our day-to-day experience showed us that the situation was worsening. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lindsey Lloyd had just always been there, part of the summer swim team experience. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

But a goodly part of our experience which we find inexplicable must be like that. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was frightened of them in those days—probably as a result of my experience with the leopard and the wolfhound two years before. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

David Rockefeller, a member of the Harvard College Class of 1936 and longtime University benefactor, has pledged $100 million to increase dramatically learning opportunities for Harvard undergraduates through international experiences and participation in the arts. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

What you lack is nothing to do with experience. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was having a great time, while I vacillated between fear and curiosity, between embarrassment and the knowledge that, like it or not, I was having my first sexual experience. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of the more experienced butlers, a white-haired African American man named James Ramsey, had served since the Carter administration. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If I had dared to, I would have gotten drunk, but after the experience with Fay, I knew it would be dangerous. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw only emptiness and fear and a kind of sudden, total end to things that I had never experienced before. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Galileo appealed to sensory experience, but sensory experience established, or so they claimed, that boats float higher in the water when far from shore, and lower as they approach port. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They would also have to cope with the extreme trauma they had experienced. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you experience the world on all fours, jumping from place to place. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

What are some of your greatest experiences in the last three years? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the whole day turned out to be the most affirming experience—it cemented my purpose in the world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He withstood horrible seasickness, weathered harsh conditions, witnessed a battle in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, and experienced an earthquake in Valdivia, Chile. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have to wait in line for hours, but that’s part of the experience. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I'd had some very upsetting experiences trying to tip people in New York. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I've got some toddler memories, but my first sequence recall is kindergarten; no matter how hard I've tried to forget the experience. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so that Scythe Curie could avoid it, but so that Citra could experience it and learn how to show compassion in the face of tragedy. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I find myself analyzing every sensation, with every experience passing down the realization that I'm just a really fancy robot Everything has its downside, and in science it's starting to show. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole experience of empathy is a swindle.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Who is this Henry guy? How big is the boat? Does he have experience on the water?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be so dramatic. I think they want experienced insiders to do stories that are about more than just the number of Biafran dead.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Tonight you could hardly say two words to me because I didn’t tell you about one of the worst experiences of my life. You ever seen somebody die?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s the only way they have of organizing the world, of organizing experience,” Jerome Bruner, a psychologist at New York University, says. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Every time I relived that experience, I got angry with the president of the Rotary Club. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We’re also going to create a club, specifically to create a safe space for Black students and other students of color to share experiences. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“The woman looked at me and I thought she had the face of my mother,” he said, trying to recollect the experience with all the honesty he had. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In comparison, the disappointments experienced by Britain’s eighteen scattered observers were mild. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Only you and I have experienced how dangerous this is, that means you and I have to destroy it. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The experience left them both with a strange feeling that they could not explain. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“This is the first time you’ll be acting as senior bounty hunter. Dave knows a lot; he’s got years of experience behind him.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Who else would take the major responsibility for a new lab and then ask a thirty-year-old man with no experience to run it?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Alexander Frear experienced much the same in his part of the city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Asta watched behind, but she had just the same experience: whenever she looked, it had just moved away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Abbot put his paw around the young mouse’s shoulder, sensing his secret yearnings, for he had ruled Redwall wisely over a great number of years and gained much experience of mouselife. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It had been a wonderful experience, and he looked at the place wistfully as he passed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they experienced, she experienced, be it the heat of a sleeper’s brow or the red wet clog of a choking man’s throat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s an aspect of the art of writing which depends on intuition, experience, and guesswork, but there is also an overarching guideline. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I had never addressed such a great crowd before, and it was an exhilarating experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If not for him, I wouldn’t have left the subway to walk, and I wouldn’t have seen Natasha having her religious musical experience. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same experience we’d had with black powder and then again with potassium nitrate and sugar. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The experience must have rattled every bit of sense out of all their heads. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if this fear of his came from past experience. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake, which was receding gradually anyhow, experienced another sudden drop. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sorry to bother you at home, but I'm doing a survey about your experience with a Sears electric blanket." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your Friend, Tommy Jefferson Dear Diary, After our “toast for change,” my students experienced an epiphany. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But, like I said before, Muhammad is not too intuitive, so he accepts my excuse that I’m practicing for some school play and not experiencing serious pangs of love. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“But you need buy-in from everyone in the group. Give it some more thought. How can you help the shelter? How can each of you get something out of the experience?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It appeared to me increasingly paradoxical, and it has been my experience that when paradox crops up too often for comfort, it means that certain factors are missing in the equation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1944, he was captured by the Gestapo, but he escaped prison, thanks to his metalworking experience, which taught him how to make keys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, those two experiences explain why Dad always insisted that the roll be called. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z