had availed
- past perfect of avail.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The response did not specify how many people had availed of the counselling offered.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2023
They added that no team had availed themselves of either the mechanism that exists to lodge a formal complaint about a competitor, nor had the anonymous whistle-blower process been activated.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
Under Taylor’s prosecutorial leadership, the tribunal decided the cases of Nazi doctors who had conducted medical experiments on concentration camp inmates, as well as industrialists who had availed themselves of slave labor.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023
The train had availed us the chance to visit the Islamic outpost of Harar.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2019
It was easy to tell who had availed themselves of the baths drawn for them, because their tubs were coated in the brown scum of weeks of unwash.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
