had glowered
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past perfectof glower.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
glowerverb (used without object)to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
Example Sentences
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Willkie took the check, looked at its thumping figure, looked at Dave Lilienthal, at whom he had glowered in many a meeting over the past six years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I felt like a babe in her hands after she had glowered at me for five minutes.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 25, 1891 by Various
"I know how it's done," he would have said, if the spectral form had glowered upon him in midnight churchyard or ruined abbey.
From Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon