troop
noun
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
have trooped
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present perfectof troop.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Most recently, city staff members, consultants and airlines representatives have trooped before a special City Council committee to explain the ins and outs of improving the airport.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
Yet in 2015 hundreds of thousands of migrants have trooped through Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia with no local political reverberations whatsoever.
From Economist ● Dec. 10, 2015
His story was a common one to Britons who, for the last eight months, have trooped into doctors' and dentists' offices to get free medical care under the Labor government's National Health Service.
From Time Magazine Archive
Conditions vary from city to city, but the main problem is the same everywhere: readers and advertisers have trooped off to the suburbs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
