entrance
noun
an act of entering, as into a place or upon new duties.
had entranced
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past perfectof entrance.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When, in 2000, Mr. Lloyd heard Hussain—the son of Alla Rakha, whose music had entranced him nearly a half-century earlier—new doors of possibility opened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
And suddenly at noon the call to prayer arises, whose plangent cadence, relayed from minaret to minaret, had entranced me all those years ago.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2017
Batman, the comic-strip blockbuster of 1989, had entranced moviegoers with its dark, brooding take on urban corruption.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whose shining, polished surface had entranced Pearl with her own reflection.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
They moved about softly, and then she gurgled that soft laugh that had entranced him from the first.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
