revolve
verb (used without object)
to move in a circular or curving course or orbit.
had revolved
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past perfectof revolve.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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As Tucci explains, after the church, the first thing the villagers rebuilt was their communal bread oven — the place where, for generations, everything had revolved around bread.
From Salon ● May 27, 2025
Much of the soul searching among physicians had revolved around when and how to use it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
One of those lingering questions coming into the game had revolved around the Husky running game.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2022
A friend, Ashton Graham, said Ms Kane's life had "revolved around Harry".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2022
But what I point to are not peculiarities of temperament or of organization, so much as peculiar circumstances and incidents through which my own separate experience had revolved.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
