circumnavigate
verb (used with object)
to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation.
had circumnavigated
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past perfectof circumnavigate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In that briefing, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman also revealed one balloon had circumnavigated the planet in 2019, travelling over Hawaii and Florida.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2023
When the pair vanished in the South Pacific, they had circumnavigated their way around three-quarters of the Equator, the BBC reported.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2012
On one play in the first period, after Karlsson had circumnavigated the entire Rangers’ offensive zone with the puck, John Mitchell took it away from him and set up John Scott for a breakaway.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2012
About the year 600 B.C., they had circumnavigated Africa, starting from the Red Sea, and going round the Cape of Good Hope to Gades, and from thence returning by the Nile.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
Shouts of applause rang through the land at the news that an Englishman had circumnavigated the world.
From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge
