tack
noun
a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
had tacked
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past perfectof tack.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Through Tuesday, Bunge’s stock had tacked on 6% in 2025 and Archer-Daniels-Midland shares had hiked up 22.4%, while the S&P 500 had advanced 13%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025
She was surrounded by long bulletin boards, on which she had tacked dozens of her gem-colored watercolor works and ink drawings, along with images of shapes that inspire her.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
This homeowner had tacked together treated landscape timbers and laid them on the grass with some coarse gravel scattered about.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
By the time he moved to Washington part-time, Sean had tacked toward the center of the policy spectrum.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
He lifted the candle to the wall, and there I saw that he had tacked sheets of music all over the plaster, high and low, affixing other pages with paste.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
