pout
verb (used without object)
to thrust out the lips, especially in displeasure or sullenness.
had pouted
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past perfectof pout.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When she learned that noon that her big brother would not be back till night, Dollie had pouted because he had gone off without telling her.
From The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring by Edward Sylvester Ellis
When she had heard that she had been placed next Donnington, Bubbles had pouted.
From From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes
And in each case she had pouted, or scoffed, and had contrived somehow to circumvent him, to thwart him, and to get with well-cloaked, or with uncloaked, insistence her own way.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
“But I don’t want to be a butterfly,” Patty had pouted.
From Patty's Success by Carolyn Wells
Beatrix, who had pouted sufficiently, her little brother being now gone to bed, was for taking her place on Esmond’s knee.
From The Literary World Seventh Reader by John Calvin Metcalf
