There's some pretty distressing experiences most people have had.

Seeing him lying in an incubator for the first time was a uniquely distressing experience.

To have dealings with members of the lower castes was always, for Bernard, a most distressing experience.

It was a profoundly distressing experience for him; not understanding why he was suddenly cut off from the world.

They have been through a very dreadful and distressing experience," he said.

"I assure you it was a most distressing experience," Spock said earnestly.

He would be tired when he got home, and frayed from what had to have been a distressing experience.

"How then does his repetition of this distressing experience as a game fit in with the pleasure principle?"

That distressing experience ought to have taught me a lasting lesson.

The distressing experience was still fresh enough for the article to produce potent sympathetic vibrations.