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The phrase "harrowing experience" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a deeply distressing or disturbing event that someone has gone through.
Example: "The survivors recounted their harrowing experience during the natural disaster, detailing the fear and uncertainty they faced."
Alternatives: "traumatic ordeal" or "distressing event".
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Having learned from my earlier, harrowing experience, I noted the wind and wave directions before departing.
Speaking to The Independent, Minister Alan Duncan said: "It was a very moving and harrowing experience.
Their defection was the product of intellectual reflection; Brock's was the result of harrowing experience.
Which can be a harrowing experience.
It was a harrowing experience.
"It's a harrowing experience for them.
Undergoing a mastectomy is a harrowing experience.
My most harrowing experience was in Cairo.
"It was the most harrowing experience of my life.
Still, Krell said, "we were all scared," confirming that it had been a harrowing experience.
Figueres, who was there with the Costa Rican delegation, described it as "an absolutely harrowing experience".
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