quarter
noun
one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided.
had quartered
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past perfectof quarter.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Their presence gave the proceedings a wartime feel, and evoked images of the 1860s, when the Union Army had quartered in the building.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2021
And there was a house that had quartered Hessian soldiers fighting for the British during the Revolutionary War — a house owned by an enterprising farmer and weaver who served under George Washington.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2017
Major Baraquin, with unconscious and sinister humour, had quartered them in the shambles.
From General Bramble by André Maurois
They had some reasons for expecting an encounter with the band of Lipans which had quartered, during several days, in and around the deserted hacienda.
From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard
At the head of Chignecto Bay was the Acadian settlement of Chignecto, or Beaubassin, in the houses of which Ramesay had quartered his Canadians.
From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Francis Parkman
