Sample Sentences for
confidant
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  • During the war, Lincoln and Seward had become good friends and trusted confidants.  (source)
    confidants = people who trusted each other when discussing confidential matters
  • I eat breakfast with my mother and Prim and head out in search of a confidant.  (source)
    confidant = someone who can be trusted with confidential matters
  • Not only was he the senior cardinal, but he had also been a confidant of the late Pope, a fact that elevated his esteem.  (source)
    confidant = someone trusted while talking about confidential matters
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  • You are my dearest confidant, my valiant hero, my trusted friend, my future!†  (source)
  • Reenie and I were confidants by then, on this matter; we'd put our heads together.  (source)
    confidants = people who trusted each other with confidential matters
  • You are almost my sole confidant in this.†  (source)
  • People who never had known what it was to enter the gate of the Mayor's yard unless it were to do some menial job now paraded in and out as his confidants.†  (source)
  • My confidant was told all this by a Jew who escaped.†  (source)
  • They are my friends, partners, and confidants in this project.†  (source)
  • When Omar alKhattab, a close confidant of Muhammad, conquered Jerusalem in 639 with a small band of Arab cameleers from the Hejaz and Yemen, it was a predominantly Christian city.†  (source)
  • Dessie, who had more friends than anyone in the whole valley, had no confidants.†  (source)
  • Harry Rex was a confidant of both Jake and Willie, and though he loved to spread gossip maliciously, he would never rat out inside information like this.†  (source)
  • While Max had many confidants—his father, Bob, Cooper, even Hannah—it suddenly struck him that David was very much alone.†  (source)
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