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 sundered his professional interests in New York that he might see the colour rebloom in her cheek, and neither he nor she had questioned that the loss was justified.
From The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
The tide of life was fast ebbing; the last grief had sundered the long tension, and soon her freed spirit would be winging its way heavenward.
From Dawn by Harriet A. Adams
