Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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Explaining how Tuesday's figures had dwarfed that traffic, Flightradar24 said: "Based on our experience last month, we expected a large influx of users, but this immediate, massive spike was beyond what we had anticipated."
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2022
The vastness of the room had dwarfed it somewhat, but now, almost upon it and with their own sizes as standards of comparison, they were amazed and awed at its cyclopean girth.
From The Sphere of Sleep by Chester S. Geier
It was clearly not the child which the tenement had dwarfed in their case, but the memory or the moral sense of the parents.
From The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Maurice listened unmoved to his friend's outpouring, and the first time Dove stopped for breath, went straight for the matter which, in his eyes, had dwarfed all others.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
Distance had dwarfed them, and the cold regard of those mighty peaks ignored them.
From Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
