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How to use entrust in a sentence

32 example sentences · verb

Entrust means to trust to the care of. Example: “Can I entrust you with a secret?”

Examples of entrust by meaning

verbTo trust to the care of.

  • Can I entrust you with a secret?
  • He entrusted me his daughter.
  • He entrusts that task to her.

More sentences with entrust

  • The man must answer to his employer for the money entrusted to his care.From the entry answer
  • Military secrets should not be entrusted to unreliable private individuals.From the entry private
  • The daily routine of the Hofkapelle was normally entrusted to the Kapellmeister.2014, Sterling E. Murray, The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister: The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti, Boydell & Brewer…. From the entry kapellmeister
  • Courbet entrusted him with organizing the defenses of Kelung (Chilung) in Formosa, which France had just seized.2006, Spencer C. Tucker, “Joseph Joffre”, in World War I : A Student Encyclopedia, volume 2, ABC-Clio, →ISBN, page 982. From the entry Kelung
  • People entrusted with SBU information must safeguard it and employ the most stringent access control available.2005, HR 285, Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2005, Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page IV-7. From the entry SBU
  • The ruler would more and more often entrust the secret chancellor with diplomatic missions abroad.2000, András Gábor, Gábor Máthé, The Hungarian State: Thousand Years in Europe, page 36. From the entry secret chancellor
  • Meanwhile the church of Wanfow was also returned to the Catholic Church and entrusted to Father Ma.1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218. From the entry Wanfow
  • The administration of this prefecture was entrusted to a governor, who resided at Ta-t'ung.1947, Dmitri Pokotilov, translated by Rudolf Loewenthal, History of the Eastern Mongols During the Ming Dynasty from 1368 to 1634 (Studia…. From the entry Ta-t'ung
  • Then the koae, or tropic bird, was sent to Poliahu with the same message with which the others had been entrusted.2023, Gerard Fowke, Nathaniel Bright Emerson, David Kalakaua, The Story of Hawaii (Illustrated Edition). From the entry koae
  • George was once entrusted by her community to help translate the landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision in Delgamuukw.2020 February 20, Nancy MacDonald, “‘That’s not the way of our ancestors’: Wet’suwet’en matriarch speaks out about pipeline conflict”, in…. From the entry Witsuwit'en
  • Later I was entrusted with writing the letters to the editor, because nobody else ever wrote to our paper.2005, David Bouchier, Writer at Work: Reflections on the Art and Business of Writing, iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry spike
  • Other jobs which the governor entrusted to Ch'ao-tung dealt with the economic exploitation of the newly won mountain areas.1979, Johanna Menzel Meskill, A Chinese Pioneer Family, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 191. From the entry venture
  • On occasion he had even been entrusted with the rectification of ‘The Times’ leading articles, which were written entirely in Newspeak.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC…. From the entry doubleplusungood
  • The Central Committee of the Party is to be entrusted with the ‘ fullest power and authority, and with far-reaching rights’.1934 [1932], Arthur Rosenberg, translated by Ian F. D. Morrow, A History of Bolshevism, translation of Geschichte des Bolschewismus (in…. From the entry democratic centralization
  • The Treasury was entrusted to the pococurante capacity of Grafton, the Exchequer to the erratic genius of Charles Townshend.1909, Ward A. W., Prothero G. W., Leathes Stanley K.C.B., Lord Acton, The Cambridge Modern History, volume VI, page 20. From the entry pococurante
  • A “swamper” is a man tramping without his swag, which he entrusts to a teamster to bring on his waggon.1901, May Vivienne, Travels in Western Australia: Being A Description of the Various Cities and Towns, Goldfields, and Agricultural…. From the entry swamper
  • She began to entrust her feelings for her father and mother to Luo Chengfei, her feelings for him slowly developing and liking.2019 December 13, Er Sheng, Debutantes, Funstory, →ISBN. From the entry Chengfei
  • The Peace of Augsburg charged the Reichskammergericht with resolving any disputes by entrusting cases to bipartisan panels composed equally of Lutheran and Catholic judges.2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 123. From the entry Reichskammergericht
  • Launch officers, or missileers, entrusted with the keys to the missiles did poorly and, on their own, would have flunked, the records show.13 March 2014, US air force documents reveal 'rot' in culture of nuclear weapons officers, The Guardian. From the entry missileer
  • Entrusted to carry the torch of Disney excellence to Japan, each manager is in the United States for an extended training and orientation program.2013, Doug Lipp, Disney U, page 144. From the entry carry the torch
  • The Reporters' Branch is entrusted with the responsibility of producing the Indian Hansard, i.e., the Official Report of the proceedings of Lok Sabha.1992, “The Indian Hansard”, in Parliament of India: The Ninth Lok Sabha 1989–1991: A Study, New Delhi: Northern Book Centre for the Lok…. From the entry Hansard
  • Two volumes of Elia have been spoilt by the man to whom they were entrusted, by miswashing sheets sent to him to clean.1969, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, The Journals of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 1879-1922, page 42. From the entry miswash
  • Dongming long-term care institution held a celebration event on July 10, one month after their opening and announced that Taipei Aiai Nursing Home is entrusted for management.2021 April 19, “Becoming backbones for disabled elders: the opening of first officially owned and privately managed long-term care…. From the entry Nankang
  • If she were his kid sister, if he still had a sister, he’d want the buddy he had entrusted to take her home to see it through.2014, Chris Keniston, chapter 6, in Dive into You (Aloha Romance Series; 4), Indie House Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry teensit
  • The fact that only the rare economists can be entrusted with economics is not reason to discard economics, but to go and find the rare men.2011, Jens O. Parsson, Dying of Money, page 249. From the entry expertise
  • O, I know very well what you are thinking: "The poor maid must be bedaffled in the brain to entrust all her fortune to a man like that!"2010, Patrice Kindl, Goose Chase, page 8. From the entry bedaffled
  • Some small banks still use this model, but larger institutions tend to entrust a single individual with signature authority, at least to a certain loan dollar amount.1996, Andrew Turnauer, Navigating the Mortgage Maze, page 124. From the entry signature authority
  • It may seem paradoxical that in a culture that considers women to be cultural outsiders, perennial semichildren, the task of enculturating the young is entrusted to women.1994, Per Schelde, Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science Fiction Monsters, page 75. From the entry semichild
  • When a Del Mar woman goes out, she entrusts her parakeet to only one person, a teen-age girl she hires to stay home with the bird.1959 July 31, “All Because of a Bird”, in The Circleville Herald, volume 7, number 179, page 8. From the entry birdsitter

Meaning of entrust

  1. verb To trust to the care of.

Full definition of entrust

Questions about entrust in a sentence

How do you use entrust in a sentence?
Entrust is used as a verb. For example: “Can I entrust you with a secret?”
What is a short sentence with entrust?
“He entrusted me his daughter.”
What does entrust mean?
Entrust means to trust to the care of.

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