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
I had desolately made the crossing from country to country, had convoyed my aunt to her big house in one of the gloomy squares in a certain district, and then we had parted.
From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph
The old sea-dog had convoyed the party as cleverly as he had navigated the dangerous channel of the Traverse.
From French and English A Story of the Struggle in America by Everett-Green, Evelyn
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 Brady, Cyrus Townsend
But more than three hundred of the vessels which he had convoyed were scattered over the ocean.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
