This first-hand experience of nature was to have a profound influence on his life and work.

We've been to the places we promote, and can speak from first-hand experience!

Someone who experienced by watching or doing something himself is said to have first-hand experience.

They are the next best thing to first-hand experience.

But what she described was based on indisputable first-hand experience.

This advice comes from someone who has had first-hand experience.

His first-hand experience of Japanese politics goes back 15 years.

This first-hand experience benefited her in the next five years.

This tour provides students with first-hand experience of American culture and the education system.

This academy is designed to provide first-hand experience for its students who would like to work with children upon graduation.

She knew things only an expert, or someone with firsthand experience, could know.

There was little in the company's operation with which she did not have firsthand experience.

What would it take to provide them with firsthand experience in this area?

That meant getting some firsthand experience in the kinds of problems he would be likely to face.

He however had other plans to gain firsthand experience of the business world and to play music after work.

I can tell you from firsthand experience that there is little or no learning in such conditions.

They were not writing out of firsthand experience at all.

But doctors with firsthand experience of the disease say the risk was real.

Something in his voice said that he spoke from firsthand experience.

I have discovered that to be true, from firsthand experience.

I got to experience firsthand the energy of the weather and water.

It was also a state she had no desire to experience firsthand.

"Digital television is something you really have to experience firsthand," he said.

Many, perhaps most of you listening tonight, experienced that pain firsthand.

He came to know our business the only way you can: by experiencing firsthand all of its operations.

This was a place and a time she wanted to experience firsthand, without interruptions.

He was experiencing firsthand an overall trend in the industry.

Some things in New York, after all, should be experienced firsthand.

I never experienced firsthand the interaction between happily married people.

This was a phenomenon Sebastian had experienced firsthand, early in his career.