regale
verb (used with object)
to entertain lavishly or agreeably; delight.
had regaled
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past perfectof regale.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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His uncles had regaled him with tales of the easy money available for legal seasonal workers — known as braceros — which allowed them to buy land and livestock back home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
At the same pool dedication ceremony, Biden had regaled the crowd with a story involving a tough local teen nicknamed "Corn Pop" who once confronted him at the pool.
From Fox News ● Dec. 2, 2019
Not the ones with which the singer had regaled his audiences almost 40 years ago, but diatribes on designated themes: Hypocrisy; Virtue; Temperance; Gluttony; Justice and Prudence, commissioned from the writer and critic Luc Sante.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2018
Before his death in 1982 Cheever had regaled many interviewers and companions with tales of his past.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he had regaled her and a girl friend on viands for which his twenty-five-dollar check had scarcely sufficed to pay.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
