- past perfect of marvel.
Example Sentences
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Disney watchers had marveled at many of these deals.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022
He had marveled hours earlier that it was still standing and wondered why it hadn’t been taken down.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2020
The lad, at maybe 8 or 9, had marveled at the men placing their folded newspapers in the seams of their seats.
From Washington Post • May 19, 2017
The resilient cheerfulness that I had marveled at was gone, and for the first time, it occurred to me that the difference between Villanueva and his brother Oscar might not be constitutional, after all.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2015
Robert Horton had marveled, even before the migration, at the power of blacks living in Chicago to elect their own.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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