convoy
verb (used with object)
to accompany or escort, usually for protection.
had convoyed
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past perfectof convoy.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Guy Martin, who had convoyed him from Tientsin.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was Perry who had convoyed them to O Kin San and her delectable tea-house, and it was Perry who was talking shop.
From The White Mice by George Gibbs
His arrival raised the allied force there assembled to fifty-one sail of the line, besides the ninety-five sugar and coffee ships which he had convoyed from Haïti.
From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
For Andrew Fraser, after much discussion with Janet Fairbarn, had convoyed the heiress to St. Heliers for a day.
From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Richard Savage
Indeed, the Constitution had convoyed the Tonquin to sea because it was rumored that a British brig-o'-war intended to swoop down upon her and take off the English subjects on board.
From South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure by Cyrus Townsend Brady
