experience

01. He had a wonderful [experience] when he stayed in Mexico for a year to learn Spanish.

02. I don't think I'll get the job because they want someone with a lot of [experience], and I've only been working in the field for a year.

03. I don't think an [inexperienced] skier should try this hill; it's much too steep.

04. Oliver's [inexperience] in dealing with forest fires put his fellow workers at risk.

05. He is sure to get the job because he has over 5 years' [experience] in similar jobs.

06. My niece got bitten by a dog, and had nightmares for weeks after the [experience].

07. I don't know much about kayaking, but I'm going with an [experienced] kayaker, so I feel quite safe.

08. Her previous [experience] in the Olympics has helped her get over her nervousness.

09. Living with a British family is usually an interesting [experience] for a foreign student.

10. As Oscar Wilde once said, [experience] is simply the name we give to our mistakes.

11. Vernon Sanders Law once remarked that [experience] is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, and the lessons afterwards.

12. There is a Tanzanian proverb which observes that we start as fools, and become wise through [experience].

13. There is a Saudi Arabian proverb which states, "Ask the [experienced] rather than the learned."

14. As of 1999, an [experienced] tunnel worker in New York earned more than $100,000 a year.

15. Each second, your brain [experiences] about 100,000 chemical reactions.

16. [Experiential] learning encourages students to use the knowledge they have gained, and add to it through direct experience.

17. Mercury and Mars, as well as our moon, form a family of related planets which [experienced] similar sequences of events in their early histories.