compose
verb (used with object)
to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements.
had composed
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past perfectof compose.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A few years earlier, Boult had written to Holst asking whether he had composed any music for small orchestra that he could perform.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
By the time she was three, the North Carolina native had composed her first original song.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2023
She sang a song she had composed for her.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2022
In August, the New York City Ballet announced that Solange had composed music for “New Reisen,” a ballet choreographed by Gianna Reisen and set to premiere at the fashion gala.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
Isabel, a tenacious reporter and mellifluous writer who returned from a long book-writing leave for this project, had composed one of the most powerful chapters in the 1993 “Children of the Shadows” series.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
