flower
noun
the blossom of a plant.
had flowered
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past perfectof flower.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Cardinal Radcliffe said "pointless violence had flowered into friendship".
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
Schumacher nonetheless resists the consolation of pity, inviting her readers instead to recognize that “Cassovan’s true existence had flowered within the confines of this dingy 8-by-10-foot room.”
From New York Times ● May 13, 2022
By then, the love for Federer and Nadal had flowered, never a calamity, and Djokovic became both Most Likely To Be Heckled and Least Likely To Be Cheered, never a calamity but rather a nuisance.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2019
In that interval of nearly two years, successive crops of plankton had flowered and faded away, but the poison had somehow passed from generation to generation.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
In that interval of nearly two years, successive crops of plankton had flowered and faded away, but the poison, although no longer present in the water, had somehow passed from generation to generation.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
