marshal
noun
a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies.
had marshaled
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past perfectof marshal.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Before the Puerto Rican artist paired with balladeer Luis Fonsi and sparked the “Despacito” addiction of 2017, he had marshaled reggaeton's thundering sounds into the American mainstream with his 2004 breakout, “Gasolina.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2017
Although he had marshaled an impressive list of arguments for his hypothesis, he was missing a mechanism.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
“It’s definitely a David-versus-Goliath thing,” Cooper said, adding he was proud of the grass-roots support his side had marshaled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2014
It had marshaled 43,000 calls to HuffPo demanding that the front page be Breitbart-free, but that's what it does; that's not what offends him.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2011
Father Delancey had said it was only the faëry nonsense in his head that made him miserable, and had marshaled before him the irrefutable blessings of his life.
From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
