had despoiled
- past perfect of despoil.
Example Sentences
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By demonstrating that golf can rectify the landscape that a mining operation had despoiled, Old Works became another harbinger of golf's role in land reclamation.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 13, 2010
It was only later that I could see how Disney had despoiled beautiful stories and had abused the idea of animation.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 1966
Zephyr had despoiled the Blue Goose of its lesser prey.
From The Blue Goose by Nason, Frank Lewis
By way of a balance to this wealth of hair on his chin, a precocious baldness had despoiled his forehead, which was as bare as a billiard ball.
From Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Murger, Henry
True, landlords groaned about unpaid rents, and money-lenders almost wept over the sums the British had despoiled them of.
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
