distribute
verb (used with object)
to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
had distributed
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past perfectof distribute.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By 2021, the Imagination Library had distributed at least 150 million books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
In October, BBC News reported that its accounts for the previous financial year showed The Anti-Slavery Collective had raised £1.5m in donations but had distributed very little, with £1.3m carried forward.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
State governor Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto said last week the government had distributed bags of maize and cash support to 1,000 people ahead of Ramadan.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
Aside from Sony Pictures Classics, which had distributed a handful of art-house animated features over the years, there was a wide-open market for GKids to help develop.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
At eight years old, Timmy had distributed illegal communist leaflets in tsarist Russia; as a teen, he survived being executed by firing squad by playing dead on the ground for two days.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
