depict
verb (used with object)
had depicted
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past perfectof depict.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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After Wood’s death at age 50 in 1942, Graham took up the fight, aiming to persuade people that her brother had depicted her as a spinster daughter still living at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
The original windows, complete with Confederate battle flags, had depicted Lee and Jackson as saintlike figures, with Lee bathed in rays of heavenly light and Jackson welcomed by trumpets into paradise after his death.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
Last year, a fan group for popular actor Xiao Zhan shut down an entire fan fiction website over a piece which had depicted him as a crossdressing teen in love with another male idol.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2021
Early articles, which had depicted her as “well-dressed,” “striking,” the family “perfect,” had given way to snide and vaguely accusatory ones of the ilk of MOM SEZ: NOT MY KID.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
