experience
noun
a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something.
was experiencing
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past progressiveof experience.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"I didn't really know that what I was experiencing wasn't what women were meant to experience."
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
He realized that what he was experiencing wasn’t “hocus-pocus—it was theater.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
A church in North Carolina was experiencing a reckoning, and someone on the staff was like, ‘No one wants to talk. We haven’t even worshiped together because of the pandemic.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Hart began to suspect Haddish was experiencing homelessness when he noticed that her car was filled with personal belongings.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
It was all exciting, but she was experiencing something unusual as she made her way to the venue.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
