apply
verb (used with object)
to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent.
had applied
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past perfectof apply.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In exchange, as of the end of June, London had legally admitted 1,117 other migrants who had applied in France, according to UK data.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Charlotte had applied without telling her dad and had already completed several interviews with producers before he found out.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Harriet Thomas had applied for a stand at the Abergavenny Food Festival on previous years, and was "really excited" when an email came offering her the opportunity to book a place for her knitting workshops.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
At 66, Lee had applied to hundreds of jobs in the 16 months after she was laid off from a soybean processing plant last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Her lips were darker than her skin, wine-stained, blueberry-dyed, so her face had a cosmetic look—as though she had applied a very dark lipstick neatly and blotted away its shine on a scrap of newspaper.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
