emit
verb (used with object)
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
had emitted
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past perfectof emit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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After more than three months of burning that year, Indonesia's fires had emitted 1.75 billion tons of greenhouse gas equivalents -- more than Japan emits in an entire year.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
It revealed 10 protected forests had emitted more carbon than they locked away over the past 20 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2021
Torres said the volcano had emitted roughly three times the material expelled during the island's last major eruption in 1971, in a quarter of the time.
From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2021
Last year, Page and her colleagues found that by 2015, drained peatlands had emitted about 80 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide — and that this cumulative amount would roughly triple by 21006.
From Nature ● Feb. 11, 2020
There seemed to be no substance to the shadow Bahumat had emitted.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
