troop
noun
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
had trooped
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past perfectof troop.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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This week, after nearly 80,000 people had trooped past a showing of his photos in Chicago's Art Institute, Roth was in an understandably satisfied mood.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue, printed on a poorer-than-usual quality of paper, was being eagerly scanned by thousands who not so long ago had trooped to department-store perfume counters in their tin hats.
From Time Magazine Archive
Opposed was a sullen collection of superbly tailored racketeers, gimlet-eyed gamblers, dumb cops, venal politicians and slick lawyers who looked as though they had trooped in from Hollywood's Central Casting bureau.
From Time Magazine Archive
Defense Secretary Forrestal and Navy Secretary Sullivan had trooped to the White House to plead Radford's case, Harry Truman had stubbornly put them off.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead, everyone had trooped to the courthouse to demonstrate—inside, a fellow activist named Bob Eaton was being sentenced to prison for resisting the draft.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
