channel
noun
the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
had channeled
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past perfectof channel.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In recent years, Tom said, his father had channeled his characteristic man-on-a-mission energy into his new role as caregiver, helping care for his wife, Kathleen O’Donnell Hunt, who had Alzheimer’s disease and died in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
For years, the 250-mile-long Northern Crimean Canal had channeled water from Ukraine’s Dnipro River to the arid peninsula of Crimea.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
According to a release sent after the meeting, the county said they had channeled $108,000 in grant money to fire-affected businesses.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2021
He denied a suggestion by a parole board member that he had channeled his obsession with fame into a ministry he runs with his wife that supplies Christian pamphlets to churches in Africa.
From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2018
Now he had one in Isabel, who seemed to direct something of the energy that she had channeled into art and into travel to this boy of mine.
From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters
