glue
noun
a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
had glued
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past perfectof glue.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The bees had glued it down from the underside with propolis — a sticky substance they create with tree resin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
Trainers had glued a wound just beneath his mouth shut, but he was already joking about what Burakovsky owed him for the wayward shot.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2018
Natalie Hynde, 30, had glued herself to her boyfriend, veteran environmental activist Simon "Sitting Bull" Medhurst, 55, to form a "human lock" at the site entrance.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2013
And then she let out a hearty laugh and struck a pose behind a Christmas tree to whose branches she had glued hanks of her hair.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2013
She had eaten nothing, she was thirsty, and her heel was throbbing and had glued itself to the back of her shoe.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
