venture
noun
an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one.
had ventured
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past perfectof venture.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Aquatics team leader Ms Wood said the baby sea lions had been spending most of their time indoors but one had ventured into the nursery pool for its first swim last week.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2023
They said few people had ventured out, though there were crowds outside some bakeries.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
Dias was one of many Portuguese explorers who had ventured out into the Atlantic Ocean in the fifteenth century following Portugal’s capture of the Muslim port of Ceuta on the Moroccan coast in 1415.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
They had ventured further than anyone imagined, so Regragui would end up saying, “This was perhaps one step too far — not in quality or in our tactics but physically.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
Although she had fished with Nokomis, this was the first time Omakayas had ventured into the woods since the day she had entered the cabin.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
