intermarry
verb (used without object)
to become connected by marriage, as two families, tribes, castes, or religions.
had intermarried
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past perfectof intermarry.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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U.S. troops and German locals had intermarried and settled down, their children went to local schools and played in the area’s sports clubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
The family was one of those Libyan families which had long been domiciled at Saïs, and had intermarried with the older Saites, who were predominantly Egyptian.
From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson
The two families, besides—Peace and Rossiter—had been neighbours for generations, had intermarried freely, and were related in various degrees.
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Algernon Blackwood
The York line had intermarried with the female descendants of Lionel, the second son, which gave it the preferable right to the Crown.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
These latter were a mixed people inhabiting a distinct province mostly between Judea and Galilee, largely made up of Assyrian colonists who had intermarried with the Jews.
From The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History by James Edward Talmage
