gauge
verb (used with object)
to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
had gauged
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past perfectof gauge.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Several opinion polls had gauged the ANC’s support at below 50% ahead of the election, an unprecedented situation.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
Van Gaal, it turned out, had gauged their limitations to perfection.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2016
The decision followed several discussions with the Pegulas, who had gauged Polian's interest about potentially taking a job with his former team.
From US News ● Jan. 1, 2015
Payton had gauged Parcells’s interest, but even after the round of golf, Parcells said there were still issues to be resolved and even then he was not sure he would take it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2012
He gathered, too, from Karen's confidences, how little, until now, he had gauged the variety of the great woman's resources, how little done justice to her capacity for being merely delightful.
From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
