Example Sentences

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In the audiobook recording of this surprising and intricate story, Ms. Entwistle’s words come across as those of a small person who is confidingly self-aware.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch the trailer for Penny Dreadful, season three One day, Green whispers to me confidingly in husky, French-tinged, but nearly over-articulated English, she was in her trailer in Ireland.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2016

“I spent so many years being unhappy,” he said, confidingly, early in his first set at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Wednesday night.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2015

“Bertone is un uomo di potere”—a man of power—“but he is honest,” a member of his entourage told me confidingly.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 14, 2015

She missed her mother’s help to understand and rule herself, but having been taught where to look, she did her best to find the way and walk in it confidingly.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott