trust
noun
reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
had been trusting
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past perfect progressiveof trust.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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On turning their faces towards what they believed to be the land, there was no land in sight, neither sand-hills nor shore, nor even the narrow tongue upon whose tip they had been trusting themselves!
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
For a long time her work had seemed to suffice, but she felt now that she had been trusting to a broken reed.
From The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird
Watching their opportunity, the two mill girls came out from the shadows of the high fence they had been trusting to shield them from the view of the scouts.
From The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. by Lilian Garis
On that morning he had been trusting to native produce rather than to the new African spirit.
From The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
And what a fool she had been, trusting him with her personal secrets; putting her private letters into his hands.
From The Diamond Coterie by Lawrence L. Lynch
