I could look back now on six months of hard practical experience.

She'd learned from hard experience that she fell into the latter category.

Keep up your courage, my son, and go out at the year's end better, not worse, for this hard experience.

It had been honed by many years of hard experience.

By pure intuition and hard experience, she knew the answer.

They love talking about how "life on the road" is a hard yet satisfying experience.

There are few things about being an embarrassing wife that I don't know from hard experience.

If anything, hard experience teaches that we are simply not getting our money's worth in education.

But the only way that child will learn is by hard experience, she thought.

This was a hard experience for him, but he's all right.