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
Harry added, as he put on his hunting cap and pulled a huge pair of fen boots on, reaching to the midthigh, which Timothy had garnished with a pair of bright English spurs.
From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Henry William Herbert
She threw her little rooms open again, and walked methodically round the outer one, collecting the odds and ends of Indian fabrics with which she had garnished it.
From The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeannette Duncan
