Sentence examples for only real experience from inspiring English sources

His only real experience, he said, was as a boy with dyslexia.

But his only real experience in opera was not encouraging: a short, shaky tenure as general manager of the Dallas Opera, which he left after 14 weeks to take the City Opera post.

Rowley: "His only real experience of running something was the fish and chip restaurant next to the stadium.

This moment on one spring night in Florida was the only real experience I've had where I witnessed physical harm to someone I love.

Up until that point his only real experience as an entrepreneur had been acquiring fixer-upper houses to renovate and then reselling them.

However, because it was my only real experience of blogging for a magazine entity, it wasn't until I saw what it could have been that I realized just how much the Forbes approach was truly grounded in the social media capability and mindset, vs the old magazine assumptions.

I was 14 and up until then my only real experiences of collectively dancing to music were school discos and weddings.

Ellison's passionate reply, "The World and the Jug," was published in The New Leader, and can be read as a manifesto, a defense of his vision and art, and of the life that created them: Evidently Howe feels that unrelieved suffering is the only "real" Negro experience, and that the true Negro writer must be ferocious.

"On our club team, we go to a meet like once a month, and that's our only real racing experience.

Birth and death — the only real democratic experiences, existentially speaking — were in women's hands.

So when I was asked to review Skyworks Interactive's Ten Pin Championship Bowling for iPhone/iPod Touch as part of my Gaming on the Throne series, the only real alley experiences I had to lean on were foot fungus fears from borrowed bowling shoes, dusty hand dryers and a bout of food poisoning.