board
noun
a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
had boarded
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past perfectof board.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The Turkish travel vlogger had boarded the ship in Ushuaia, Argentina, on April 1 to do a story about one of its stops, Tristan da Cunha, the remote archipelago in the South Atlantic.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
The administration said Sunday that the Coast Guard was pursuing a tanker off the Venezuelan coast, though it did not say the U.S. forces had boarded the vessel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Another soldier said he had boarded a plane to deploy back to the front but was removed just before takeoff in front of his fellow soldiers, because his superiors didn’t trust him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
News agency AFP quoted a source as saying French military personnel had boarded the vessel on Saturday.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
She changed her mind in 1854 when she learned that Blackwell had boarded a train and rescued a runaway eight-year-old slave girl who was being forced to return to the South.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
