Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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Dylan, the project’s architect and director, had stitched together the first edition of the film on a personal computer while Korey was in the Middle East.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
Manafort also owned python, which he had stitched into an equally unimpressive but expensive jacket.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2018
All she had was an Italian phone number, which her maman had stitched into the sleeve of her jacket.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2018
In this way, poetry had stitched itself into his DNA, a presence so casual that Bankston didn’t openly ponder it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2016
Though she pretended to take no notice of my work, even complaining that I was neglecting my tasks, I would sometimes come upon her looking to see what I had stitched.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
