live
verb (used without object)
to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions.
had lived
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past perfectof live.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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None showed signs of attempting to return to the breeding facility where they had lived.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
In our study, the children had lived through 9/11.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Prior to buying the Westchester County abode, the fashion mogul had lived in a plush Greenwich Village townhouse.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
It was not passed on to San Diego, where Bayoumi had lived in the USA and where the FBI Field Office was also investigating him.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The younger Swanburne girls had lived in terror of her bloodcurdling scream, which was put to good use every autumn at Heathcote’s annual Haunted Hay Maze festival.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
