had furloughed
- past perfect of furlough.
Example Sentences
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The Detroit automaker said it had furloughed the 163 UAW workers at GM’s Toledo Propulsion Systems plant that makes transmissions for both the automaker's Missouri and Lansing Delta Township assembly plants that are on strike.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
At the height of the pandemic in 2020, the club had furloughed staff.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2022
For months now across the economy, businesses have been scrambling to acquire enough supplies, restock their shelves and recall workers they had furloughed during the recession.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
Outside Online acknowledged its financial struggles when it appealed to readers for donations, and Thurston said the magazine had furloughed a number of employees.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021
He had furloughed many of his loyalists, as all formidable resistance seemed at an end; and he now sent out messengers in every direction to recall them to his standard.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Roosevelt, Theodore
