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• When you reply that your reckfulness can be taken as read, he'll confide: 'I know, I know.2009, Gideon Haigh, The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season. From the entry reckfulness
• "I'm having a funny feeling," he confided, lying rigid on our bed like a felled tree.2007 February 3, Jemima Lewis, “Jemima Lewis: Why British men make good husbands”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media…. From the entry uxoriousness
• 'I used to be confusticated,' he confided, 'but you know how these things go.'1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, page 71. From the entry confusticate
• "To tell you the truth," he confided, "I am a little tired of my job.1919, E[dward] Phillips Oppenheim, chapter VII, in The Box with Broken Seals, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, →OCLC, page 68. From the entry neither fish nor fowl
• A friend who’s spent decades as an auto mechanic recently confided that he’s grateful to be nearing retirement.2025 February 11, Joshua Stylman, “How to Forge the Spectator Class”, in Brownstone Journal. From the entry module
• And I just felt so sorry for him,” Pauley confided with a sheepish smile, without identifying the miscreant.2017 April 13, Lloyd Grove, “Jane Pauley: I Was Sexually Harassed at NBC”, in The Daily Beast. From the entry middish
• “Next to you, I'm all Lani has,” she confided.2016, Jill Shalvis, The Bachelor's Bed, Harlequin, →ISBN. From the entry next to
• Now Kendall and Kylie confide in me.2011 May, Lori Berger, quoting Khloé Kardashian, “Love, Kardashian Style!”, in Redbook, volume 216, number 5, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, pages…. From the entry boy problems
• The former superspook confided to me that he planned to challenge Baker to a lie-detector test on what was labeled “Debategate.”2008 February 3, William Safire, “Dirty Tricks”, in New York Times. From the entry superspook
• I ain't so brave." Flip confided to her partner.1975, Red Jordan Arobateau, The Bars Across Heaven, page 3. From the entry ain't nothing but a thang
• "I am only half here," Frank Vecera confided.1964 September 30, Jim Murray, “Better half”, in Nick B[oddie] Williams, editor, Los Angeles Times, volume LXXXIII, number 291, Los…. From the entry Paralympian
• "Nickle will never make a reliable shot," confided Mr.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry musketry
• But he does confide that the force works hand in hand with the helicopter service, and its ability to deploy drones is getting quicker.2022 February 9, Tom Allett, “The BTP's eyes and ears in the air”, in RAIL, number 950, page 50. From the entry sensitivity
• While in Matliary, where Kafka stayed to recover from his tuberculosis he often confided in Robert Klopstock, one of his favorite fellow patients.2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental…. From the entry clown around
• He confides that he thinks it will be a ‘line ball call’ tonight and he'll have to rely on preferences to get over the line.2016, Francis Keany, “Election day: Brisbane”, in Follow the Leaders: How to Survive a Modern-day Election Campaign. From the entry line-ball
• The mind is a tabula to engrave the story of reality's cataclysmic impacts, the individual—a tool through which history confides it to mankind.2014, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva, The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry, page 60. From the entry tabula
• The crowd, which included many children, cheered when Truman confided with a smile, “They know what side their bread is buttered on.”2008, Jerry Moriarity, Picking the Bones of Eleven Presidents and Others, →ISBN. From the entry know what side one's bread is buttered on
• After one encounter she confided to Rose, "You know, Glen's grown to simply love himself so much, he just thinks he's God's gift to women.1964, Hesba Brinsmead, Pastures of the Blue Crane. From the entry God's gift to women
• But you must remember that we were boys together, and a fellow naturally confides in a chap he was boys together with.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI. From the entry cut to the quick
• "Den," he confided, "I 'splained to de release man 'bout lookin' fur a settin'-down job, an' he jes' sorta motioned to de do'."1947, John Avery Lomax, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, page 195. From the entry splain
• For Mrs Blythe had confided once to Ann, and Ann had ultimately reconfided to Halloran, the story of how her husband had walked disorderly with a domestic in Portsmouth.2016, Thomas Keneally, Bring Larks and Heroes, →ISBN. From the entry reconfide
• "For a while I didn't tell anyone on the ward where I was going, but my toing and froing made people curious and eventually I confided in a few."2015, Barbara Taylor, The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times. From the entry to and fro
• The lady confided to the nurse helping her up off the examination couch, and told her “He put his hand up me funnel and made me tuppence bleed!”2012, Richard Johns, Diagnosis of the Soul: The Long Road to the Beginning. From the entry tuppence
• "A childhood Misadventure with a Torpedo," Dixon, with a brief move of his head toward Mason, confides, "— thus his Sensitivity at all References to the,"— whispering,— "electrickal!"1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 286. From the entry torpedo
• She had never meant to confide in him — certainly not here, eating omelette and cheese sauce — but that look seemed to demand a confidence.1969, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “London End”, in The Image Men, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 288. From the entry omelette
• "The fact is," confided Tulloch, taking his place in the car, "I've been out of things for a bit, Wynn, and I'm finding civilisation a shade cast-iron now.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry cast iron
• "Every way considered," he confided to a friend, "there are customs and habits so interwoven with the very fibers of things as in some respects to be almost hopelessly remitless."1974, Ian M. G. Quimby, Polly Anne Earl, Technological Innovation and the Decorative Arts. From the entry remitless
• '“I do not think,” Christine confided afterwards to a friend, who reconfided it to Bertie van Tahn, “that I shall ever be able to touch pâté de foie gras again.1911, Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, →ISBN. From the entry reconfide

Meaning of confide

1. verb To trust or have faith (in).
2. verb To take (someone) into one's confidence; to speak in secret with.
3. verb To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.

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Questions about confide in a sentence

How do you use confide in a sentence?

Confide is used as a verb. For example: “I confide in her judgement in this matter.”

What is a short sentence with confide?

“I confide this mission to you alone.”

What does confide mean?

Confide means to trust or have faith (in).