had foreclosed
- past perfect of foreclose.
Example Sentences
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After the housing crash of 2008, Blackstone began buying up large numbers of single-family homes that banks had foreclosed upon and turning them into rentals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
It was “a wildly improbable charge,” Mr. Browder says, “brought under pressure from the Russian bank that had foreclosed on them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2018
The international community is in a “much better place” to deal with Pyongyang “than if we had foreclosed on the diplomatic options,” Swift said.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
Between 2011 and 2015, Wayne Country had foreclosed on nearly one in every four homes in Detroit for nonpayment of property taxes.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2017
A financial house had foreclosed and sold the place to Gower,—who had been trying to buy it for years, through different agencies.
From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney
