harrowing experience• Despite all this talent, however, Simon describes his trip to Broadway as a somewhat harrowing experience.• No detectable fragments may survive this harrowing experience.• You've had a harrowing experience and a luckyescape.• Whether I'd stuck to my guns or not, it had been a harrowing experience and I felt abused.• Reporting a rape remains a strenuous and harrowing experience, however, and it is likely to continue as an underreported offence.• No, Mr Holman, don't let your harrowing experience this morning send you into the realms of fantasy.