flog
verb (used with object)
had flogged
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past perfectof flog.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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According to the Hiscox Artist Top 100, Aboudia, real name Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, had flogged 75 lots.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2024
He had flogged his horses into a gallop, and was coming straight at me.
From The Master Mummer by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
But here finding the water beginning to grow against them, and wearied by the exertion into which Stukeley's enthusiasm had flogged them, the watermen paused again, declaring that they could not reach Gravesend before morning.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series by Rafael Sabatini
The Mate, anxious to get his head on pillow, had flogged the clock and had struck eight bells himself.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone
The man of Como, whom Marcellus had flogged, will be remembered—the Roman citizen who had first been made a citizen by Cæsar.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
