calve
verb (used without object)
to give birth to a calf.
had calved
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past perfectof calve.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“I would say over the last four or five years there’s been a lot of people move from February to March. Some that had calved in March for years even moved to April.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2021
She had calved during the night--a little red beast like a dog.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
Two cows had calved, and I had the poor, miserable, staggering wretches in the bails, trying to force down their necks a bit of watercress I had found in the creek over a mile away.
From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde
And Mrs. Bumpkin pointed out which ones had calved and which were expected to calve in the course of a few months.
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris
Then he ran home and asked his wife whether the cow had calved.
From The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
