had telescoped

• past perfect

  past perfect

  Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.

  of telescope.
  telescope

  noun

  an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms refracting telescope, or refractor consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form reflecting telescope, or reflector has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed.

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had telescoped

Some had telescoped, others mounted high in piles, one upon the other, their locomotives as well as their contents being smashed and damaged—the whole scene presenting the aspect of a gigantic railway wreck.

From My Home in the Field of Honor by Frances Wilson Huard

But the Fitzgerald Contraction had telescoped those nine years into just a few months, for the people of the Valhalla.

From Starman's Quest by Stan Mack

Time had telescoped and he was back again in the early eighties.

From The Lost Valley by James Morgan Walsh

The altered scale of distance confused him; the road had telescoped absurdly; the hayfields were so small.

From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood

About where Berth Number Ten should have been, the timbers had telescoped upward, leaving an open space four or five feet high.

From Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police by James Oliver Curwood

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