bicycle
noun
a vehicle with two wheels in tandem, usually propelled by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a chain, and having handlebars for steering and a saddlelike seat.
had bicycled
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past perfectof bicycle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Before his death, Carroll, who had bicycled to the monastery almost every day, represented the sisters to city officials, relaying their concerns about the noise in the park.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
During World War II, as a girl, she had bicycled across Amsterdam, delivering coded messages for her sister, a nurse in the resistance.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023
After Ms. Farrell left her purse on the train, her husband picked her up at the Purdys station, and drove her around the reservoir where he had bicycled as a boy.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
If only she had bicycled rather than driven her car!
From Scientific American ● Jul. 25, 2012
We had studied together at a computer school in Los Angeles and, back in 1982, we had bicycled from San Luis Obispo to Monterey, California.
From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Mark Eliot Laxer
