had groveled
- past perfect of grovel.
Example Sentences
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Through the crag's proud centuries, a squalid village had groveled 500 feet below on the poplar-lined banks of the river Lot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just before El Glaoui died last year at 80, the old man had groveled abjectly before the man he had forced into exile, begging forgiveness.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw how one wrong had been a sure and easy path to another, until in the end he had groveled face downward in the mire.
From Bressant by Hawthorne, Julian
He had groveled before a girl—but he was to be spared.
From The Call of the Cumberlands by Buck, Charles Neville
McGowan had groveled in dissent, but it had made no impression on Garry, whose duty it was to see that the work was properly carried out and whose signature loosened the village purse strings.
From Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
