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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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
He said the letter had scared members of his congregation, a group of about 150 to 200 people, which he described as multi-ethnic and multi-racial.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 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
Hours earlier, just before sunrise on Monday, a 5.8-magnitude earthquake had scared him out of bed in southwestern Puerto Rico.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2020
Against my wishes I started thinking of all the things in my life that had scared me.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
