garnish
verb (used with object)
had garnished
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past perfectof garnish.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A few months later, she opened her paycheck and discovered the hospital had garnished her wages by $870 a month.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
Months later, he discovered why: A debt collector had garnished his bank account after suing him for about $4,500 the company said he owed on an old debt.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2015
Then she learned from a Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter that it was not Supportkids but the military that had garnished her ex-husband's wages.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was accustomed to survey with pride her mother's drawing-room, which she had garnished with cheap cretonnes, Japanese paper fans, and knick-knacks in ornamental pottery.
From Cashel Byron's Profession by Bernard Shaw
He had garnished his soul in the subtlest taste and now he longed for the old rubbish.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
