Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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The former detective was fired in 2017 after an allegation was received that he had improperly paid a witness and had fraternized with people connected to criminal conduct.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 19, 2019
The boys had fraternized at once,—what good boys do not? especially when there are ponies and rabbits and puppies and pigeons to exhibit, and talk about.
From The Hallam Succession by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
The women with whom he had fraternized were akin to himself: Jane, child as she was, was antagonistic.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
The members, accompanied by the populace with whom they had fraternized, were traversing the streets.
From Madame Roland, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
His men were like himself in this respect, and after they had fraternized with Brian's men they began to feel the same unbounded surety in Yellow Brian as Cathbarr expressed.
From Nuala O'Malley by H. Bedford-Jones
