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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Just two days earlier, the vessel had ventured out on what he had hoped would be a long and fruitful voyage.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
“There was no evidence that any of them had a weapon and no one I interviewed realized they had ventured onto a private enclave,” he said in a news release after the McCloskeys pleaded guilty.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
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
Vadym had ventured out to get diapers and baby food for the toddler, according to his sister Darya Shepets, 19.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
She caught a mouse running over the snow and a squirrel that had ventured from its leaf nest.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
