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How To Use confiding In A Sentence

• And more than one-in-four children who took part in the survey also said they worried about being badly treated at home, even if they were confiding their worries to parents.
• The metage duty on coals which may belong to the Corporation after the year 1862, under 1 & 2 William IV., and 8 & 9 Victoria, is not to be affected by the present Bill; but he must be a confiding and unsuspecting individual who can trust to a long enjoyment of that source of income. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
• The shopkeepers, restaurants, and gambling-houses, with an amiable confidingness peculiar to such people, had trusted the miners to that degree that they themselves were in the same moneyless condition. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
• -- This confidingness, this complaisance, this showing-the-cards of German HONESTY, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the Beyond Good and Evil
• Nichols, dressed in crisp white shirt and blue power tie, spoke in confiding and confident terms about the injustice of White House correspondents 'dinner seating arrangements, the need for "newsy" background meetings and early-morning gaggles, the disrespect shown toward the press by interminable delays. White House reporters see the other side while campaigning for board spots
• All of the women without a confiding relationship or a job who also experienced one of the other vulnerability factors became depressed.
• After a fifteen-minute break, we went around the room confiding why each of us was there and what we wanted to write about.
• But I would suggest talking calmly to your wife in private and confiding your feelings before you do anything else.
• Even her husband, it is said, upon whose fortunes her talents and address had produced such emphatic influence, regarded her with respectful awe rather than confiding attachment; and report said, there were times when he considered his grandeur as dearly purchased at the expense of domestic thraldom. The Bride of Lammermoor
• She paused an instant, with a pale, absent expression, as if she searched herself, then looked up clearly in the confiding face above her, and promised what she faithfully performed in afteryears. Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power.