scare
verb (used with object)
had scared
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past perfectof scare.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“It was as though my memories were pigeons and the accident a big noise that had scared them off,” he reflects, without much bother.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Save Ukraine returned 31 children that day and several confirmed that camp staff had threatened to place them in care, which had scared them.
From BBC ● May 30, 2023
“They said we had scared the patients,” Weinstein said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
Now, if you have systems that spontaneously want to move, this sounds dangerously like a perpetual-motion machine, and that had scared physicists away.
From Scientific American ● May 11, 2022
What had scared this kid enough to make his bones quake?
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
