Sample sentences for CONFIDANT

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someone trusted with private matters

They are my friends, partners, and confidants in this project.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

My confidant was told all this by a Jew who escaped.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
In addition to his role as chief handyman, Ti Jean serves as Farmer's main local male confidant.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
And the prisoner chose him for his confidant (we have his own word for it) and he frightened him into consenting at last to act as a spy for him.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
Mahtoree was not long in communicating his plans to his confidants, whom he as quickly dismissed to join their fellows in the rear.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
In the cereal aisle or frozen food section, Gabby couldn't seem to avoid him, and he became something of a confidant.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
Impossible; you are his confidant!
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Not without a sort of joy indeed he might have appreciated the brave opinion of him implied in his Captain's making such a confidant of him.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
Milkman was a confidant, almost an accomplice.
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
I hear things, piece things together, but except where Medusa's concerned, I'm hardly a consultant, much less a confidant.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
You are almost my sole confidant in this.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
"Well," yawned Tom, "I've played confidant a good hour by the clock.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
Sadie Burke didn't have any confidant, for she didn't trust anybody.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
Siblings, one too close and curious, the other much too far away to serve as confidant.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
Even my own ancestors, who were confidants of the great Samaranth, did not know the secret.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
Dessie, who had more friends than anyone in the whole valley, had no confidants.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
Through her whole life the wife of the unspeakable Cornelius had no other companion, confidant, and friend but her daughter.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
He had to be his confidant, and to date, all he'd done was string the kid along, just like everyone else in his life.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
There can be no question that Stapleton had a confidant, though it is unlikely that he ever placed himself in his power by sharing all his plans with him.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
Scott figures this guy is going to waltz off with this thing for dealer invoice, being a friend and confidant of Mr. Norman.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash

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