had grooved

• past perfect

  past perfect

  Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.

  of groove.
  groove

  noun

  a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board tongue-and-groove joint, a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.

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had grooved

So was the 91-mph fastball that St. Louis Cardinals reliever Giovanny Gallegos had grooved down the middle of the plate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

The reporter had grooved a fastball down the middle of the plate, and Zhao had slammed it out of the park.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2022

When he crossed home plate, Howard told catcher Thurman Munson, “Thanks for the gift,” recognizing that New York had grooved one to him.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2021

Enter the zigzagging lines: Instead of two flat surfaces where the bones came together, as in humans, these sauropods had grooved surfaces that fit together almost like puzzle pieces.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 27, 2017

Here and there, it looked as though an adamantine serpent had grooved its way over the convex iron surface, as a worm leaves the mark of its crawling in the soft earth under the stone.

From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by William Elliot Griffis

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