tour
noun
a traveling around from place to place.
had toured
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past perfectof tour.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Earlier that year, he had toured with arguably his greatest small group, a sextet including multi-reedist Eric Dolphy, whose sensitivity and brilliance were an especially good match for Mingus’s own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Theslof grew up playing hockey in Minnesota where his grandmother, who had toured with the Ice Capades, ran a skating school whose clients included Herb Brooks’ gold-medal winning U.S. hockey team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
Mr Kirby, who was born in Bristol, had toured Bosnia and Afghanistan with the British Armed Forces before moving into work as a security consultant.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024
The circus, which had toured with scant interruption since Ulysses S. Grant’s presidency, shuttered indefinitely in 2017 as it faced lagging ticket sales in the wake of its decision to stop featuring animals.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
Riis had toured Chicago’s foulest districts and pronounced them worse than anything he had seen in New York.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
