crouch
verb (used without object)
to stoop or bend low.
had crouched
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past perfectof crouch.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Strong testified that once he took Ward-Blake to the side of his police cruiser, he started searching the man’s upper body and had crouched down by his ankles.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
With his unlidded eye, the photographer spotted us where we had crouched behind the piano.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
Stedding and the steward once more came down, and each taking the second mate by the shoulder led him out, from the place where had had crouched ion the starch boxes.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 11, 2011
After three days of suspense, nine miners who had crouched 240 ft. beneath a dairy farm in Somerset County, Pa., gasping as the last of their air leached away, were delivered from their flooded mine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kaz had crouched down, turning all the keys, trying to get all the dogs waddling at the same time, and the boy selling them had struck up a conversation with Jordie.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
