browse
verb (used with object)
to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
had browsed
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past perfectof browse.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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On the flats below, where Old Juan's burros had browsed on the scanty mesquite, were long lines of houses for the miners and a power plant to run the great stamps.
From Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge
Since his return to Ferth, however, he had browsed a good deal among the books collected by his grandfather, mostly by way of distracting himself at night from the troubles and worries of the day.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward
There were thousands of young wild apple-trees here, scrubby and thorny, where cattle had browsed them.
From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
We saw during our morning peregrinations many old moose-tracks, and also many spots in the woods where these animals had browsed; while a few of these moose indications were certainly of recent origin.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
More than one trampled place beside the thickets of edible brush showed where the deer herd had browsed within stone’s throw of the tote-road.
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Grace Brooks Hill
