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  • I was supposed to keep an eye on her: Reenie didn't waste any sleep on my account, but Laura in her opinion was altogether too confiding, too cozy with strangers.   (source)
    confiding = trusting (saying things that are private)
  • Confiding in Claude turned out to be the right decision.   (source)
    confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
  • The thing that he loved most about America, he once confided to the boy, was the glazed jelly donut.   (source)
    confided = told
  • Hilde confided in me recently that she's had a boyfriend for a few months now, and she's very much in love.   (source)
    confided = placed trust (in someone) by telling something private
  • Margot is very kind and would like me to confide in her, but I can't tell her everything.   (source)
    confide = place trust (in someone) and talk about private things
  • Would he never more see lively, sweet-smelling Alyss Heart? Never again confide to her his dreams of soldier-fame?   (source)
    confide = share private thoughts
  • A bosom friend—an intimate friend, you know—a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.   (source)
    confide = place trust (in someone) and talk about private things
  • 'I see,' he said, 'you trust your children, and confide in them.'
    'Of course,' said Mother.
    'Then I may tell them our little arrangement,' he said. 'Your Mother, my dears, has consented to give up writing for a little while and to become a Matron of my Hospital.'   (source)
  • First promise me--give me your word--that what I now confide in you Thea shall never know.   (source)
  • I was making guesses at his real first name, which, he'd once confided to me, began with the letter "H." I'd known Aech for a little over three years.†   (source)
  • No one's ever understood me like you, Tom.... I'm so glad I've got this diary to confide in.... It's like having a friend I can carry around in my pocket.... Riddle laughed, a high, cold laugh that didn't suit him.†   (source)
  • A few years later, an older cousin told him what a miscarriage was, and confided that Roy's mother had lost a baby girl.†   (source)
  • Nina weighed the Count's remark, then looking once to her left and once to her right, she confided.†   (source)
  • She took a beat to compose herself, then summoned me over to confide that she was leaving in a week to work at a "real law office."†   (source)
  • Why could you not have confided in me?†   (source)
  • He shook his head and pretended to confide, "He needs a tree.†   (source)
  • She had confided to the forewoman that she had recently suffered a heart attack and was afraid she might be on the verge of having another.†   (source)
  • But I had to admit, he was the only person I'd ever really confided in who wasn't family or someone I was in love with.†   (source)
  • The voice from the radio—it had dropped an octave, altered pitch, slowed and lengthened measurably—was now that of someone's wayward uncle confiding the secrets of his golf game; now it miraculously glided through a tongue twister; now it suddenly sensed great depths of meaning in an ordinary double play.†   (source)
  • Charles Wallace slipped his hand confidingly in Meg's, and the sweet, little-boy gesture warmed her so that she felt the tense knot inside her begin to loosen.†   (source)
  • Harold leaned toward me and confided, "I gotta say, Ginny, that everything about that boy gets me these days.†   (source)
  • It was after Peter confided in his brother that Joey told him about sewers, and that instead of giving his pet freedom, Peter had killed it.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Early, who was Marley's Ghost, began to hack and sniffle, Dan confided to me that it would be perfect symmetry—for the play—if all the ghosts came down with something.†   (source)
  • She leans close and confides, "The things that really matter to me I can't share with anyone outside the group.†   (source)
  • "You shouldn't be sorry," she said, not wanting to speak about the horrors that she'd seen, or of Kaltain's treachery, or what Nehemia had confided in her.†   (source)
  • "I hate them," Arya confided, red-faced, sniffling.†   (source)
  • There are still three people I might confide in, starting with Cinna, my stylist.†   (source)
  • He grinned confidingly and sank down on my cot, leaning on his elbow in a relaxed, at-home way.†   (source)
  • To our family friends who visited she would confide, "You don't have to be so smart to win chess.†   (source)
  • Baz liked talking about her, and I mostly liked listening, glad he confided in me, reading out bits of her letters.†   (source)
  • "Oh, none of the other cabins talk about it," Drew confided.†   (source)
  • That the word had been written by a man confessing to an image in his mind, confiding a lonely preoccupation, disgusted her profoundly.†   (source)
  • He would never have admitted this to Kathy, but he could confide in Adnan.†   (source)
  • Sampson finally confided in his older sister, who drove him to the police station.†   (source)
  • Mama Elena asked the doctor to lock the door and confided to him her suspicions about the bitterness of the food.†   (source)
  • "I just feel it in my bones," she confided, "that something wonderful is going to happen tonight at the corn husking."†   (source)
  • "The principal would like to see you, dear," Mrs. Dewitt confided in a hush.†   (source)
  • "Oru kaaryam parayattey"Comrade Pillai switched to Malayalam and a confiding, conspiratorial voice.†   (source)
  • Part of me wanted to turn the car around and race back to the hospital, to tell her that I would always be there for her, to confide in her the things Tim had said to, me.†   (source)
  • "Never mind her," Rachel confided to Hannah.†   (source)
  • Not that he was a gossip," he added hastily, "Welty was very discreet, buttoned up to here, but people confided in him, he was that sort, you know?†   (source)
  • The next morning, she confides in her daughter, Karla Yamileth Chavez.†   (source)
  • At least, though, I knew it was on Tommy's mind after that, and I was glad he'd at least confided in me that far.†   (source)
  • Don't press him about his new attitude—know that he will confide in you when the time comes, and in the meantime, shower him with affection so he feels secure and loved, because that's how this marriage thing works.†   (source)
  • It felt wonderful to finally confide in someone.†   (source)
  • He didn't want to confide the knowledge to the doctor, however.†   (source)
  • "Listen, I like you Louie," Frankie confided.†   (source)
  • I wanted to tell him that I had no place to stay, but he got off before I could summon the nerve to confide in him.†   (source)
  • Sethe found that remarkable and more evidence to support her conclusions, which she confided to Denver.†   (source)
  • It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person.†   (source)
  • Our friendship grew, and she confided in me more and more.†   (source)
  • But I have not been in a very confiding mood.†   (source)
  • "I think so, too," I confided.†   (source)
  • Protestants practice confession, too, though a little less formally, often confiding in God without an intermediary.†   (source)
  • He was even the son of an English lord, a fact he had confided in strictest secrecy.†   (source)
  • "Katrien," as the family had rechristened her, was posing as the von Woerden's housemaid—although Nollie confided to me that she had yet so much as to make her own bed.†   (source)
  • One of the men in the congregation confided to Father that having church just every old now and then, as it seems to them, instead of on market day, has always bamfuzzled everybody about the Christians.†   (source)
  • "This ain't much car," he confided to Danny, "just a rental job.†   (source)
  • 'There is no bed in there,' they confided one to the other with nodding heads.†   (source)
  • "Only from ugly people," Jace confided.†   (source)
  • She didn't confide in you about another man, did she?†   (source)
  • She was now, without a doubt, the person on earth in whom Michael was most likely to confide.†   (source)
  • Arbatov feigned embarrassment beautifully, speaking as though he were confiding a great family secret.†   (source)
  • About the same time the Bandit confided in me about his own passionate love for a classmate of his, Zhou Xiaoying.†   (source)
  • Clara was the one in whom she confided her most subtle feelings, and to her she consecrated her enormous capacity for sacrifice and veneration.†   (source)
  • Many years later she confided that she was looking for a way to get out of a desperate home situation.†   (source)
  • In an intense but calm voice, the assassin confided to Augustus, as though trying to persuade him, the strangest thing: "I'm mad.†   (source)
  • So that Florentino Ariza heard about many acts of disloyalty, and even some state secrets, which important clients and even local officials confided to their ephemeral lovers, not caring if they could be overheard in the adjoining rooms.†   (source)
  • He was interviewed in the hope that his sister might have confided in him and perhaps given him some clue if she was thinking of running away.†   (source)
  • These are the reasons I give myself for not confiding in Xander as I usually do.†   (source)
  • Confiding in Rahel hadn't helped.†   (source)
  • Linda always showed wrinkles of concern over Magda, but when alone she confided to me that Magda had to learn how things worked at the laundry.†   (source)
  • I wanted to confide in Vee, but I didn't want to sound crazy, either.†   (source)
  • It was no surprise that Jordan confided in her.†   (source)
  • No teacher had ever confided in me about anything to do with her personal life the way Miss Riley had just done, almost as if I were her equal.†   (source)
  • They've completely lost their appetites," Caroline confided, thereby heading off the arrival of one of Lucy's famous hot dishes.†   (source)
  • I wanted to be more than that—I wanted him to trust me and confide in me.†   (source)
  • Elvis confided in Gladys.†   (source)
  • Well, they all had, but there was something special about the way Diane talked with her, something confiding, almost sisterly.†   (source)
  • despite high desert heat and wild winter winds, looked like it welcomed me looked like it threatened me looked just the same to melooked completely different and I was happy to be homeand I was undeniably sad and I never wanted to leaveand I wanted to turn and run wanted to call my old friendswanted to call my newest friend wanted to confide everythingwanted to keep it all to myself needed to boast about the bestneeded to confess the worst needed to hold upneeded to break down had to rememberhad to forget had to find Kristina.†   (source)
  • He confided in a friend that at times he'd wake up from a drug-induced stupor and have to ask another addict where he was.†   (source)
  • This shy, confiding smile made his heart move up until it hung like a Ferris wheel at its zenith, looking down at the fair.†   (source)
  • "There's more prostitution now than when we started," she confided grimly at one point.†   (source)
  • It felt right to confide in Stevie Rae.†   (source)
  • I confided in Alex yesterday and the sky didn't fall.†   (source)
  • He felt an urge to confide in Ferraro, to tell him how his chest ached with jealousy; how he was leaving the country because of a woman who didn't take his love seriously.†   (source)
  • Kenyon and Mr. Clutter had gone to Garden City; Gerald Van Vleet had left for the day; and the housekeeper, the blessed Mrs. Helm to whom she could confide anything, did not come to work on Saturdays.†   (source)
  • "I usually use one at a time," he confided, as all but the smiling one disappeared again.†   (source)
  • I began to confide in him.†   (source)
  • By now, Cedric has confided in Zayd-told him things he has told no one else at Brown.†   (source)
  • Dish Boggett grew increasingly worried and took to confiding in Newt now and then.†   (source)
  • "I'm a goin' to earn a whole lot of money and pay back the trouble I am to my folks," he confided to Gray, hastily.†   (source)
  • Your heart is breaking, and you have no one to confide in.†   (source)
  • He had only contempt for "these people," he confided in a letter to Congressman Richard Henry Lee, another fellow Virginian.†   (source)
  • I could just imagine how he'd spun it, me confiding in him, then following him upstairs.†   (source)
  • One day on an airplane, he confided to me that he thought of all our fellow passengers as patients.†   (source)
  • I thought of confiding in her, but her love of gossip held me back.†   (source)
  • You see,' he confided earnestly, 'what I hope to do is give the men in this squadron the best meals in the whole world.†   (source)
  • Collin confided in me that he had a sister, Betsy Mae, who had asthma also; that's how he'd known what to do.†   (source)
  • To Shari, she confides, "I don't care about that dumb Dr. Quinn.†   (source)
  • And because the angel is drunk and lonely and angry with God, and because, without his even knowing it, he feels the urge, familiar among humans, to confide in someone, he tells the man the truth: that he's an angel.†   (source)
  • "They did not really straighten out the paperwork," Moody confided to me.†   (source)
  • What could be so terrible that she couldn't confide in her own diary?†   (source)
  • Pop seemed entertained by my relish and leaned over to confide: "I use extra spices."†   (source)
  • My sister didn't exactly confide in me.†   (source)
  • When Bram hid the book, he confided the secret of its location to one other person.†   (source)
  • To close the deal, he confided that "Jackie won't be there."†   (source)
  • "Is it me," Jack confided to Charles, "or do I sense a hint of spurned romance in her anger?"†   (source)
  • He would quit nagging her to confide in him.†   (source)
  • It was this habit, I suppose, that led me into the account I made her then, a bawdy confession of my own lust, which I had the right to confide to her, and then that which I did not: the news I'd just learned of .†   (source)
  • He was still bearing the pull of the fish across his shoulders but he placed his left hand on the gunwale of the bow and confided more and more of the resistance to the fish to the skiff itself.†   (source)
  • If you and your daughter were at odds over her lifestyle, it would be unlikely she would have confided in you about professional or personal acquaintances.†   (source)
  • John Bradley never confided the details of his valor to Betty.†   (source)
  • Mortenson confided about his crush on Marina and Syed strategized endlessly, inventing ways his friend could ask her out.†   (source)
  • I think to ask her what's wrong again, hoping that all this talk of sticking together will make her want to confide in me.†   (source)
  • In a moment of weakness, Clarke had confided a secret that wasn't hers to share.†   (source)
  • But the best part was how Jenny even confided in me about him in the first place.†   (source)
  • Gosh, I'd felt so set-up and proud, her confiding in me like I could be counted on to keep my mouth shut, and all the time she must of been hoping I'd scatter her words broadcast like turnip seed.†   (source)
  • One day, I was studying with Mathona, and I confided to her my fear that I might not pass my exams in English and history at the end of the year.†   (source)
  • "Raising money is difficult for everyone," she confides.†   (source)
  • Whom would he confide in?†   (source)
  • Rufino has stopped confiding in her.†   (source)
  • "Look," he confided, "I've never been to something like this.†   (source)
  • Checking behind me to ensure I was safe from prying eyes, I confided, "Yeah, but I'm not so sure I'm supposed to have it.†   (source)
  • As for the rest—" He stopped, then said, "I have some friends who know this, but you are the first person to whom I am confiding it against my own rules: I have never slept with any of those women.†   (source)
  • "I can do these things for your little girl," he confided to Baba, "but they will be money spent on a no-use cause."†   (source)
  • "What you really want," he confided, "is a thermocouple with a cold junction compensator."†   (source)
  • Irene had once confided to Rusty she'd had the opportunity, when she was young, to marry into the family who'd started Volupte.†   (source)
  • His tone remained intimate, as if confiding a great secret.†   (source)
  • We're going away,' Sophie confided to me presently, through a mouthful of pie.†   (source)
  • Tell me, would Reynolds have confided in her the same concerns he did to you?†   (source)
  • His wife had recently given birth to triplets, and he confided in a voice that bordered on panic — according to the radioman — he got more rest on the job than at home.†   (source)
  • If I were able with my speech, maybe her feeling would turn and she could confide in hushed tones that her husband who brought them here too late in his life died one morning of a heart attack and was simply gone, that that's why she was here and not at home, sound asleep near her good children.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, in the darkest booth of a deli, over double cheeseburgers with everything, Grover was chummily confiding how he'd been wrongly charged with buying barrels of stolen grease.†   (source)
  • I was almost out the front door when she called me back, and I feared she was going to make me cross my heart and hope to die that I wouldn't say anything at all and then I'd be torn between confiding my feelings to Misty and living without the invited threat of death.†   (source)
  • He leaned forward slightly and lowered his voice, as if to confide something terribly important.†   (source)
  • And that it needs some big changes before the rights and the interests of the community can be safely confided to it.†   (source)
  • Evidently Denny was having one of his unexpectedly confiding moments.†   (source)
  • You're quicker than your friend.... (Confidingly.)†   (source)
  • The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell's ego could fit snuglyin the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome but in very few other public places.†   (source)
  • He must protect himself not only from without but from within, and against the most natural of impulses: though he earn a fortune, his role may forbid him the purchase of a razor; though he be erudite, it can befall him to mumble nothing but banalities; though be be an affectionate husband and father, he must under all circumstances withhold himself from those in whom he should naturally confide.†   (source)
  • This comes out in the first scene, as Niccolo confides his history to a friend, Domenico.†   (source)
  • Cathy had the one quality required of a great and successful criminal: she trusted no one, confided in no one.†   (source)
  • His heavy face shone with delight at what I had done and delight that I should confide it to him.†   (source)
  • She had become like a relative to him, he confided, and he wouldn't charge her a penny.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he had thought of confiding his secret to Rupert but his natural caution had held him back.†   (source)
  • I was afraid to confide in him as to the condition of my memory.†   (source)
  • He did not seem anxious to talk, confide in her, or ask her opinion, as he usually did.†   (source)
  • Yurii Andreievich took off the outer clothing of the dead telephonist and, with the help of Angelar, in whom he confided, exchanged it for that of the boy.†   (source)
  • She talks to Cathleen with a confiding familiarity, as if the second girl were an old, intimate friend.†   (source)
  • Mrs. McIntyre had changed since the Displaced Person had been working for her and Mrs. Shortley had observed the change very closely: she had begun to act like somebody who was getting rich secretly and she didn't confide in Mrs. Shortley the way she used to.†   (source)
  • Also, he recognized at once any sort of attempt to confide, and then its certain and hasty retreat.†   (source)
  • But writing to his wife about the demands of the Legislature that had appointed him, he confided, "I cannot do it; I had rather quit politics forever."†   (source)
  • At 3:00 P.M., he confided to Powell how he had inherited his foul estate.†   (source)
  • "So did I!" said Tomas, and it was like talking to an old and dear friend, confiding, growing warm with the topic.†   (source)
  • Mary was appealing, looking up at the boy, almost confiding in him.†   (source)
  • Samson should not have confided in his mistress Delilah.
    confided = placed trust (in someone) by telling a secret
  • "Well, I ain't told this to nobody before. Maybe I oughten to. I don' like Curley. He ain't a nice fella." And because she had confided in him, she moved closer to Lennie and sat beside him.   (source)
    confided = place trust (in someone) and talk about private things
  • "I think your Gilbert Blythe IS handsome," confided Anne to Diana, "but I think he's very bold."   (source)
    confided = told (of something most people wouldn't be told of)
  • "Miss Barry was a kindred spirit, after all," Anne confided to Marilla.   (source)
    confided = told
  • On Sunday Anne confided to Marilla on the way home from church that she grew actually cold all over with excitement when the minister announced the picnic from the pulpit.   (source)
    confided = told (of something most people wouldn't be told of)
  • "I didn't say anything when Josie said that to me," Anne confided that evening to Marilla, who was lying on the sofa after one of her headaches, "because I thought it was part of my punishment and I ought to bear it patiently."   (source)
    confided = placed trust by telling something private
  • An error, though, to have confided this affair to Crake.†   (source)
  • He's far away, but even if he were beside me, could I confide in him?†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure how Erik managed to make me want to confide this in him.†   (source)
  • Would he have deduced the reason why I didn't confide in him?†   (source)
  • "He killed the water fountain last night," Tyson confided.†   (source)
  • Then came the dark years, she once confided to Theresa, a time when the marriage almost failed.†   (source)
  • He confides in her the commitment he has made to Amra and Roshi.†   (source)
  • Booth confided what Jones already knew: Booth had killed Lincoln.†   (source)
  • He had been my mentor, my only mentor, the only teacher in whom I could confide.†   (source)
  • "Owen had some more to say," Mr. Meany confided to us.†   (source)
  • Can you confide in me what the mission is?†   (source)
  • At least now she had someone in whom to confide her problems.†   (source)
  • The fortune-teller confided to Baby Uncle that she knew the girl quite well.†   (source)
  • Confiding in Mr. Bracegirdle was foolhardy.†   (source)
  • I confide in him and I forget, once again, what I'm doing here.†   (source)
  • They'd been trying, according to Nirmala, who blushingly confided the occasional marital intimacy.†   (source)
  • She leaned forward, as if prepared to confide news of a delicate nature.†   (source)
  • She deliberated for a long time about whether she should confide in Dragan Armansky.†   (source)
  • It seemed like a stupid thing to confide, but Annabeth didn't look surprised.†   (source)
  • "Lord Tywin is greatly wroth about the men you sent after Ser Gregor Clegane," the maester confided.†   (source)
  • She trailed away, doubtful whether she should confide her recent revelation.†   (source)
  • She couldn't confide in her mother, either.†   (source)
  • "I'm almost certain that they're weapons," she confided.†   (source)
  • It's the most peculiar sensation," he confided.†   (source)
  • Then why not confide in me, and I can —†   (source)
  • Finally, I've confided to Thérèse, I understand the subjunctive tense.†   (source)
  • I told him my name, which I confided to almost no one.†   (source)
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