cherish
verb (used with object)
to hold or treat as dear; feel love for.
had cherished
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past perfectof cherish.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Another song, Lost Horizon, was rescued from an early 2000s demo that McCartney's late engineer Eddie Klein had cherished.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
I had met with Zack a couple of months ago at her burned-out property, where she had cherished her garden, her courtyard, and the rambling flow of the 100-year-old Mediterranean-revival home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
The independence and fearlessness she had cherished were gone.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2022
"I lost in Siberia," Kropotkin would write," whatever faith in State discipline I had cherished before: I was prepared to become an anarchist."
From Scientific American ● Sep. 13, 2011
Annie, the fir tree, that the Nolans had cherished with waterings and manurings, had long since sickened and died.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
