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Example sentences for "had discovered"

  • Only old Gardinois and his little, gimlet-like eyes were to be feared; but Sidonie entertained him, and even if he had discovered anything, he was not the man to interfere with her future.

  • It was, in fact, the illustrious actor, whom he had discovered in the front row near the platform.

  • At the last moment he had discovered a defect.

  • He artfully wrote to that gentleman, stating that he had abandoned the chase of Sidney in despair, and desiring to know if he had discovered him; and a bribe of L300.

  • And rapidly, with his wonderful talent for exposition, he related the principal points of the plot he had discovered.

  • The judge breathed freely; at last he had discovered a vulnerable point in the prisoner's armor.

  • And he forthwith related all that he had discovered, referring, as he went along, to a voluminous manuscript which he had prepared, with many notes and authenticated proofs attached.

  • For he had discovered everything, and now must bring matters to a crisis.

  • The princess, it may be imagined, was amazed, when the sultan gave her an account of what he had discovered.

  • But suppose I had discovered him, is it not easily seen that his conduct must have proceeded from absolute power?

  • The robber wanted no farther assurance to be persuaded that he had discovered what he sought.

  • Many were our conjectures as to the meaning of that great horde of silver we had discovered hidden in the sands of Skaill Bay.

  • But Jack Paterson and another fisherman, while crossing a very lonely part of the moor, had discovered a poor dog, whose pitiful whining had drawn them to the spot.

  • When the interest in my treasures had somewhat abated, Mr. Drever and the captain exchanged conjectures concerning the probable origin of what we had discovered at Skaill Bay.

  • Proceeding nearly north-west, we met with the little river I had discovered a few miles beyond my camp of the 13th and 14th instant.

  • This was no sandybedded river like others we had discovered.

  • This day I had discovered, from the highest parts of the downs, a range to the S.

  • Thus, upon the whole, this seemed but one side, and that the south-eastern, of the basin of the river we had discovered.

  • What the ill luck was, my friend did not say, nor how he had discovered it.

  • From him I learned that two French ships from the Mauritius, about eight months before, had discovered land, in the latitude of 48° S.

  • Early in the morning of the 24th, I sent Mr Gilbert the master to sound about the rock we had discovered in the entrance of the sound.

  • Between them and this object they had discovered a perplexing barrier; an inattention.

  • He had not noted this at the time, and when he had discovered it he had been sick.

  • He had discovered something so revolutionary in his personal affairs that even the war issue remained for a time in suspense.

  • He had discovered that it was different from the other walls long before he had any thoughts of his own, any conscious volitions.

  • Before him was bounding the faint patch of white he had discovered.

  • A mile above the forks, running velvet-footed as was his custom, a gliding shadow that cautiously prospected each new vista of the trail, he came upon later imprints of the large tracks he had discovered in the early morning.

  • Which he had discovered limits the meaning of what?

  • Which he had discovered = He had discovered morsel.

  • The phrase to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered tells the purpose of what?

  • His hope that the St. Lawrence would prove the long-sought passage to China had to be given up, but the river which he had discovered and so thoroughly explored proved to be a great highway into the center of North America.

  • He died soon after this voyage, still believing that he had discovered a new route to the Indies and new lands on the coast of Asia.

  • He went to Spain and accompanied several Spanish expeditions sent to explore the new continent which Columbus had discovered on his third voyage.

  • His body was wrapped in mantles weighted with sand, carried in a canoe, and secretly lowered in the midst of the great river he had discovered.

  • Our hopes had been buoyed up as we advanced, an impression prevailing that we had discovered a river, from our finding that at low tide the water was simply brackish.

  • Now he thought that he had discovered enough to allow him to risk a step that, until then, he would have deemed dangerous; and with the egotism common to all men, even the best of lovers, he trusted in the weakness born of sorrow.

  • Just before they started Captain Wallis returned from a voyage round the world upon which he had discovered or re-discovered Tahiti, and he recommended this as a suitable place for observing the transit.

  • Ross, who had been sent by the Admiralty in 1840 to identify the South Magnetic Pole, as we have seen he had discovered that of the north.

  • The boys saw that in those faint marks in the snow he had discovered something of unusual if not startling significance.

  • When Rod went to that rock for his third pan of dirt the old warrior made no sign that he had discovered anything.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had discovered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    considerable proportion; fifteen inches; had acquired; had all; had arrived; had before; had determined; had died; had entered; had formed; had had; had learnt; had left; had meant; had none; had not; had rather; had reason; had scarcely; had shown; had something; had the good fortune; kitchen garden; light step; more generous; water rights