sunder
verb (used with object)
had sundered
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past perfectof sunder.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When he turned to the more densely populated precincts near Boulder, Adams saw that the harmony between nature and civilization had sundered.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
The post-communist Russia of the 1990s, led by Boris Yeltsin, the country’s first freely elected leader, had sundered.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2022
If the great state of California had never existed, or if it had sundered along the edge of the Rockies and sunk, Atlantis-like, into the Pacific, what would the arts of the world have lost?
From Time Magazine Archive
He had disregarded a personal and political friendship of thirty years' duration, and had sundered ties which life was too short to re- unite.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
The death of Crassus broke the Triumvirate; that of Julia, in 54, had sundered the family ties between Caesar and Pompey, who married Cornelia, the widow of the young Crassus, and daughter of Metellus Scipio.
From Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Robert Franklin Pennell
