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
The frigates, which had convoyed the merchant fleet, were taken higher up the river, and a thousand of their seamen came down, from Quebec, to man the batteries and gunboats.
From With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
By this time Deborah had convoyed Paul to a dark corner behind the counter and jerked back a trap door.
From The Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume
