patronize
verb (used with object)
to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
had patronized
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past perfectof patronize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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During more than an hour of public comments, longtime residents pleaded with the City Council not to take away the stores they had patronized for more than a decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2019
Many had patronized the Hippodrome since its 1960s heyday, when the city painted itself as the Paris of the Middle East and races drew a glittering high-society crowd.
From Reuters ● Jun. 29, 2017
Maxine Cheshire of the Washington Post reported that Miami's hairdressers were tearing their hair over the fact that none of the leading candidates' wives had patronized their establishments.
From Time Magazine Archive
The owners of a shop that he and a friend had patronized believed they had received bogus U.S. traveler's checks and alerted the police.
From Time Magazine Archive
I went into a drugstore that I had patronized every day since my arrival.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
