prospect
noun
Usually prospects
had prospected
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past perfectof prospect.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Wilson had prospected the Kanab area before and filed claims.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hugh was tempted to ask how deep the miners, who had prospected the pup, had gone before they had struck pay; but did not, because he gave the man credit for intelligence.
From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis
She had prospected and hunted in the mountains with her uncle, weeks at a time.
From The Border Legion by Zane Grey
A miner had prospected up this river for an estimated distance of forty miles, in the season of 1887.
From Klondyke Nuggets A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest by Joseph Francis Ladue
But still no one had heard of the Klondike, although they had prospected between the Yukon and the Arctic Ocean and far down to the mouth of the Yukon, and about everywhere else!
From Young Alaskans in the Far North by Emerson Hough
