purchase
verb (used with object)
to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
had purchased
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past perfectof purchase.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The city administrative officer said that his office had found that all but one Olympic organizing committee since the Athens Olympics of 2004 had purchased event cancellation coverage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He had purchased the home in 2021 for $1.5 million.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The man was crouched behind a 5-foot-tall gun safe Roebuck had purchased a few weeks earlier.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
CoolKicks said it had purchased the merchandise in good faith and had no knowledge the goods were stolen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
That evening, Mom and Dad gave me my Christmas present: a pair of turquoise and silver earrings they had purchased from a Navajo woman.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
