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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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
Brigitte Bardot was in the Alps, along with thousands of other French women and men who had trooped to the ski slopes in record numbers.
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
His family had trooped inside to sleep, while he, as usual, bedded down on the porch under an asbestos awning.
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
