usher
noun
a person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, etc.
ushered
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past participleof usher.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof usher.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
ushernouna person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, etc.
Example Sentences
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Its design ushered in a very different approach to disability support – by providing people with funding based on their individual needs, and a certain amount of freedom to choose how to spend it.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
After taking more details from him, they ushered him out of the crowded airport before taking a taxi to a hospital 30 miles away in Kampala.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Elsewhere in the fenced-off city, Spanish soldiers ushered hundreds of other migrants, mostly young men and youths, through Ceuta's palm-lined streets to the border to return to Morocco.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Jim Crow Era ushered in a new kind of slavery but eventually galvanized Congress to establish some of its most impactful legislation, in the VRA and the Civil Rights Act.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The black deputies who had hovered nearby ushered us toward a back door that led downstairs, where a throng of reporters waited.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
