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
The Sweet Cheese had flowered nicely, but the leaves were browning.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 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
Henri had suddenly decided that the old-fashioned pincushion was an art form which had flowered and reached its peak in the Nineties and had since been neglected.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
