dot
noun
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
had dotted
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past perfectof dot.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A Finnish goal in the third period, though, proved to be decisive and left the finale without some of the shootout dramatics that had dotted elimination games in Beijing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2022
In April in the staff tent at Donka Hospital, she unfolded a giant city map she had dotted with red, blue and green ink to track cases.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2014
There, after endless conferences with Army and civil authorities, pleading for space and equipment, he had dotted the United Kingdom with 75 Red Cross clubs.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a week, brightly colored tents had dotted the festival grounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pleasant little villages that had dotted the smiling landscape were reduced to mere heaps of rubbish.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
