board something up

Examples of boarded

boarded

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Poverty was the main reason why children were boarded out, frequently associated with loss of parents and difficulties in providing for a large household.
The three oldest children were boarded out while the two youngest were allowed to stay with their parents who would receive poor relief.
Those few students who came from outside the city ordinarily boarded in the home of one or another of the college's faculty members.
Even if those individuals are considered, the number of illegitimate children boarded out in 1868-1871 was remarkably low compared to the other two periods.
The women whose illegitimate children were boarded out in 1830 -1837 were usually middleaged women with more than one child born out of wedlock.
One of the two roadways has been boarded up; the stall-keepers have departed; there is no longer any music.
Boarded passengers move with the plane until they are deplaned, which can occur individually in our variation.
At the age of four she was lucky enough to be boarded out to a relatively good farm where she stayed for three years.
She had not broken her anchor; someone had boarded her, cut away her anchors and cable, and set her adrift.
Then, with musicians and attendants, she too boarded her chariot.
Those who boarded the northbound buses therefore did so because they could see no other solution to their desperate economic predicament.
Most likely it was an emergency measure also for the impoverished households whose children were boarded out.
In some, -oors were boarded superseding rammed earth, while in others roofs were extended.
Between 42 and 45 per cent of the families whose children were boarded out during all three periods were headed by widows or widowers.
Only those children whom the sources clearly indicate were boarded out for the very first time have been included in the analysis.
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