bracket
noun
a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
had bracketed
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past perfectof bracket.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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All that was left were the pair of towers that had bracketed the stage, anchoring giant gears and gimbals.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2013
She put in one busy day silencing shore batteries which had bracketed U.S. transports unloading at Guadalcanal.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the circumspection of a seasoned speculatist, I had bracketed two independent hypotheses, either of which would supply a satisfactory solution.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
If Mr. Baring had bracketed Tourgeniev with Charlotte Brontë and Dostoievsky with the lonely Emily, I should have credited him with a subtle originality.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett
Job had bracketed his target, but the mist-clouds that were sweeping past rendered his task a difficult one.
From The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader
