parallel
adjective
extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging.
had paralleled
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past perfectof parallel.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Douglas had wished for land for his country and had paralleled the course of the slavocracy to get it.
From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters
He had paralleled the Continental Railway in Geology; a feat as yet unequalled by other governments which had as a rule no continents to survey.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
The removal of the Indians from Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois had paralleled the similar removal from the lower South.
From Expansion and Conflict by William E. Dodd
Before they first appeared, parts of the Eastern Appalachians had paralleled our eastern sea coast for many million years.
From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard
They were now well inland and mounting a perceptible grade toward the foothills: the sluggish stream they had paralleled all day ran swift here.
From Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson
