construct
verb (used with object)
had constructed
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past perfectof construct.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“I spent a couple of days doing that and then ultimately decided that what I had constructed reflected more readily my interpretation of who this character was, so I stuck with it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
An 11th-hour review by the city’s Department of Buildings, a department spokesman said, showed the club “was no longer utilizing temporary stage equipment but instead had constructed a whole permanent building.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
The transaction happened off market through a developer who had constructed a new, contemporary build in place of the traditional home that stood there when Jennifer Lopez previously owned it.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 5, 2026
This maternal- or paternal-originated expression bias is the signature of intragenomic conflict, and the researchers said it appeared more often than it would have if they had constructed the networks with randomly selected genes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023
After all, it was the home of Odysseus, the dude who had constructed the astrolabe.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
