lodge
noun
a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.
had lodged
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past perfectof lodge.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Garces Perez says doctors couldn’t remove the bullet because it had lodged near his spine and ICE wanted to move him to a detention center, where he remains in custody.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
The court heard that the Public Prosecution Service will be applying to amend dates on paperwork which they had lodged.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
When the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno doubted the possibility of poetry after Auschwitz, Celan replied with the asperity of one who knew where barbarism had lodged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
What, exactly, had lodged itself in my brain all these years later?
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026
The voice she’d heard in Tsvishn Veltn had lodged itself in Molly’s brain and drowned out everything else.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
