had smoked
- past perfect of smoke.
Example Sentences
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The test did compile a DNA profile of whoever had smoked the cigarette, but it did not match any samples in DNA databases compiled by law enforcement.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
I wondered if Duncan Dioguardi had ever had a broken-down car or if he had smoked the car, its antenna being the last piece remaining.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 3, 2018
He and Basterra had smoked a cigarette together outside the apartment building in the warm night air a few hours earlier.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2016
Between 1964 and 2014, smoking rates declined by half; between 1996 and 2013, the number of eighth-graders who had smoked within the past 30 days fell from 21 percent to 4.5 percent.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2015
It was later, after another dinner of plain white rice had been consumed and tea forgone again on account of the drought, after Rasheed had smoked a cigarette, that he told Laila about his decision.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
