charge
verb (used with object)
to impose or ask as a price or fee.
had charged
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past perfectof charge.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Through May, prosecutors had charged fewer than four dozen people with crimes related to noncitizen voting, ProPublica’s analysis of DOJ data and federal court filings shows, getting convictions or guilty pleas in 14 cases.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
In November 2025, the Football Association had charged Palace with failing to ensure that supporters did not behave in an improper, offensive, abusive or provocative way.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Prior to the White House deal announcement, both Lilly and Novo had charged $500 per month to cash-paying customers for most dosages of their weight loss drugs.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
By the time Attorney General Merrick Garland named the prosecutor to the job—in November 2022—the Justice Department had been investigating the events of Jan. 6 for 22 months and had charged hundreds of people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Thomas had charged thirty or forty feet into the woods, dodging and ducking and losing ground with every second, when the beetle blade jumped onto a particularly large tree and scooted up its trunk.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
